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Comment by basilikum

6 hours ago

yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.

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netsharc  5 hours ago

I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...

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