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I don’t get Google’s gripe with youtube-dl. A huge chunk of YouTube content is reaction videos and video responses where snippets of the original video is spliced into the new one for commentary. How are creators supposed to make these kinds of videos “legally” if youtube-dl is not allowed according to Google?

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By using Google's own shitty, artificially limited tools ?

Part of the issue also applies to kapwing BTW : your app in inherently worse when you have to fight the browser's own limitations - one recent example I have seen : a tool that syncs the sound of two videos that had a live discussion... but then doesn't allow you to put then on separate screens, both fullscreen, because it puts them both in the same browser tab, rather than two separate windows !

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