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[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Right after the repository got yanked, it wasn't working for me. I believe I downloaded right from http://yt-dl.org/ as well. Just doing a youtube-dl update now (2020.11.17) worked though. It appears that youtube-dl has to be constantly updated to circumvent whatever youtube is doing to try to prevent it?

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    [–]Intuit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Not in my experience. Lately it's had to be updated every week or so. Like parent, I installed from yt-dl.org and it stopped working a few days ago and I had to download the newer version. YouTube breaks things constantly. The NewPipe app on Android I use to play YouTube audio in the background also gets broken a few times a month for the same reasons.