General Discussion • Re: YouTube Now Forcing Visitors To Sign In To View Videos

Off-topic: ^It's not just Degenerate States, even if it appears most prominent statistically and brags of its supposed first-world status at the same time.

BTW, there used to be the maintained extension Ant Video Downloader that's useful for these sites. I got its YouTube module working at least on Project VORAPIS that still uses decipherable URLs to video/audio streams.

Not meant as downloader, but PotPlayer dumps video/audio streams to .tmp files in %TEMP% folder (no login required). If you wait for the whole thing to load, you can merge *tmps to normal video file with ffmpeg.

Maybe best to get your favorites off before whole YouTube is Widevined.