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Well, technically yt-dlp too but that don’t help much for actually browsing.
If yt-dlp is a browser, then so is curl
Yup I loves me some yt-dlp. But big tech is at war with it. They do everything possible to break it.
Sometimes it works only if you supply some token or credential. Which defeats the purpose. Other times it works monday but breaks tuesday.
Mad respect to ytdlp team for fighting this fight. But their enemy is formidable.