Comment by adrian_b

That is true.

I use yt-dlp to download sporadically some YouTube clips and it works fine.

However, once I attempted to download a complete YouTube list of clips, with a total size of several tens of GB. Towards the end of the list, after a couple of hours or so, the download was interrupted.

Then my IP address was completely banned for YouTube, regardless of the browser used. The ban lasted for a couple of weeks.

Now, used only for infrequently downloading single clips, yt-dlp works again fine.