You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. Note that downloading YouTube videos with a utility other than YouTube’s apps (which require a YouTube Premium subscription) nominally violates YouTube’s terms of service: There are several solutions on the Mac, and I review a few of them here. Whatever the reason, you don’t have to rely on Firefox to download videos from YouTube.
Or, you may want to be able to play some YouTube videos in a situation where there’s no Internet access. A friend of mine accidentally deleted the “sizzle clip” he slaps on the front of every video in iMovie, and he solved the problem by downloading one of his own videos from YouTube and extracting that clip. For example, they may want to download short clips to use in their videos (honoring the doctrine of fair use, of course). The uploader might pull a video down, YouTube may remove a video in response to a copyright complaint (sometimes legitimate, sometimes not), and a video might disappear if it runs afoul of YouTube’s ever-changing and seemingly haphazard standards for acceptable content.īut preservation isn’t the only reason people download YouTube videos.
Like most cloud-based things, YouTube videos are ephemeral-they vanish all the time for all kinds of reasons. There are several reasons you might want to download videos from YouTube. Recent changes in Firefox have broken extensions like DownThemAll, which used to be a handy way to download videos. When I reviewed the video player IINA (see “ Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player,” ), quite a few TidBITS readers took it as an opportunity to vent their frustrations about downloading videos from YouTube. #1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.
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