Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube

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yt-dlp remains unaffected for now.

yt-dlp is only affected when YT changes their algorithms (breaking yt-dlp data scrapping capabilities) or when it's used frequently with the same IP address (leading to automatic IP blockage). If you're using yt-dlp sporadically, it shouldn't be affected.

Is there a gui interface for that anywhere? I really can’t be bothered to learn the command line just to download a couple vids here and there. Especially when freetube still works for now. But if the barrier to entry was a little lower, I’d start backing up faves.

The basic command is just yt-dlp 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' tho.

That will get me a minimum 1080p vid with sound? Cuz looking at the instructions, it looks a lot more complicated.