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Honest question: why do you care how? It does circumvent it quite efficiently.

But I've seen somebody here in this thread mentioning that yt-dlp emulates the YouTube Android client.



Sometimes when you know the "trick" you can better predict how long it will last, and how long you can rely on it continuing to work.


>Honest question: why do you care how?

Aren't you interested to find out? It sounds like it would be interesting to know how they did it.


Not one bit. I only care if it works and whether it works fast enough. I get that other devs might care, it's just that I personally don't.




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