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> Download videos with a single tap. > Screenshot showing video downloading from youtube.com

This app is on the play store. Unfortunately, it won't be for long given Google's opinion of YT downloaders.

Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.

> Firefox's YT background play was killed by this.

Do you know of a link to any more details about that?

Ah, sorry, it actually turns out I was wrong. Google did kill it, but they killed it by adding some JS on YouTube and not by making Firefox blacklist YouTube background playback: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355407

It's up for "pre-registration".

But I'll gladly give this a shot with a sideload.

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