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rasz on April 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser

Apparently Google does not allow Chrome extensions that let you download YouTube videos, seems like a nice precedence.

Looking at popularvideo downloaders gets you things like Video Downloader professional: "Caution: The download of YouTube videos to hard drive is locked because of restrictions of the Chrome Store."

username223 on April 20, 2017 [–]

Fortunately, we have `youtube-dl` and keepvid.com to combat this crap.

dao- on April 20, 2017 | [–]

Also, for the time being we have browsers that aren't Chrome...

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