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Afaik it's used more for circumventing anti-bot measures and solving challenges than the download handling itself.

This is accurate (maintainer of downstream project that depends on yt-dlp for archiving operations).

Yes, that's what I meant; if the download is going to take minutes, then a fem milliseconds spent doing the challenge don't matter much?

I believe the parent comment is saying the js runtime doesnt affect the speed of downloads, thats all c/c++/rust code