Is this a quasi-captcha because of some legal reasons? I would assume math problems are easy to solve for a computer (easier than for most of the humans, actually).
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/404f611f1c4aa516fbc4...
Of course this is easy to solve, but every layer of obfuscation they add generally requires someone to go and work around it in yt-dlp. It's mutually assured time waste on both sides.
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