Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...
Never. Even if yt blocks the program from downloading from its site, it can still pull from like 10,000 other sites. I doubt google could do anything to actually stop the software from being distributed. We all know how that goes.
It is a very useful piece of software. I’ve never used it to actually download a youtube video.
yt-dlp now suffers from the same issue that Invidious does: uncircumventable rate-limiting based on IP address.
You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won’t work anymore.
Same for yt-dlp, currently: It works from your residential IP address, but not a datacenter IP address like a VPN.
If you get Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot or This helps protect our community. in yt-dlp, do not actually try to sign in, because that will get your account banned (see yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128).
So once a solution is found for Invidious, yt-dlp will be able use it too, and vice versa.
At what point/what would it take for yt-dlp to be shut down?
Never. Even if yt blocks the program from downloading from its site, it can still pull from like 10,000 other sites. I doubt google could do anything to actually stop the software from being distributed. We all know how that goes.
It is a very useful piece of software. I’ve never used it to actually download a youtube video.
yt-dl was “shut down” at one point. That led to vastly more interest and the birth of yt-dlp. I think they learned their lesson.
yt-dlp now suffers from the same issue that Invidious does: uncircumventable rate-limiting based on IP address.
Same for yt-dlp, currently: It works from your residential IP address, but not a datacenter IP address like a VPN.
If you get Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot or This helps protect our community. in yt-dlp, do not actually try to sign in, because that will get your account banned (see yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128).
So once a solution is found for Invidious, yt-dlp will be able use it too, and vice versa.