On 12/22/2017 04:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:I've never used youtube before.One thing to note explicitly: YouTube is deliberately designed to thwart downloading videos. YouTube's owner (Google, Alphabet, whatever they call themselves next year) have chosen a business model [0] that benefits when more people keep watching videos *via the site* [1]. So downloading videos from the site works directly against the business model they have chosen.
I personally consider Google goal is to be as obnoxious as possible. I avoid them whenever physically possible.