No Longer Any Way To Download Youtube Videos?

Discussion in 'Software' started by Skullduggery's Dupe, Jan 13, 2022.

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  1. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    Is there no longer any way to download YouTube videos?

    Free YouTube Downloader and Free Download Manager no longer work (for me, at least).
     
  2. Stephen_c16

    Stephen_c16 Master Sergeant

  3. Anon-e88bcb5f0b

    Anon-e88bcb5f0b Anonymized

  4. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

  5. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    I would give Maxthon 5 or 6 browser a try. I have used both, and they feature a "media sniffer" button that lists all downloadable content on the page. Great feature for any website that has any video you might want to have. (If the videos are split into many segments, it can't join them, unfortunately.)
    I still have the portable versions of the browser, and the latest version of Maxthon is here- Maxthon Browser
     
  6. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    Personally I'd avoid Maxthon.
    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon
     
  7. foogoo

    foogoo Major "foogoo" Geek

  8. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    Complaining that Maxthon is from China is a bit silly. I've seen lots of questions about the security of the browser, and I'm wondering if it's just plain racism and paranoia about Covid. I don't use it as my main browser anymore. It was being used on an old Vista laptop, and I couldn't use an updated browser. I have since updated the Vista laptop to Windows 10; wasn't sure it would work, but everything looks OK and I have finally gotten all the bugs worked out.
     
  9. XoXgaming

    XoXgaming Specialist

    I can use the Video Download helper option on firefox to download youtube videos.
     
  10. pistol

    pistol Private First Class

  11. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    I don't use Chrome.
    Am I now racist? :eek:

    Covid???
    Maxthon has been around since 2002...
     
    Last edited: Jan 16, 2022
  12. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    I don't know if you are racist because you don't use Chrome.
    I've gone back to using Microsoft Edge as my main browser.
    I'm not accusing anyone personally of being a racist, but "from China" keeps coming up again and again in product descriptions....oddly enough.
    Me personally....I can't stand Curry....does that make me a racist?
    I'm a white male, with a native relative in the background....so, I'm not totally white. Some people have mentioned to me that I should not tell anyone that I have a native background...now, that's racist. The natives in Canada are basically hated.
     
  13. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    OK, this all has given me a bit to digest, I’ll let you know what works for me.
     
  14. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    Hi, david.p —

    I didn’t want to install yet another browser, so I didn’t install Maxthon.

    But I also had another reason to not want to install Maxthon. Namely, because Maxthon is a Chinese company.

    So is that a racist or paranoid reason? Far from it. Why not?

    Because Chinese companies — like foreign companies operating in China — have to do whatever the government says they have to do. Like, for example, participate in propaganda and disinformation schemes and/or withhold information from Chinese citizens. Or give a share of a company to the government, and allow the government to install some of its own members as company officers. Or assist the government in spying on people all over the world — both within China, and outside of it.

    So, the Chinese government simply isn’t worthy of trust. Consider this:

    1. They covertly surveil millions of Huawei cell phone users over the world. And that’s espionage.
    2. They engage in rampant theft of intellectual property all over the world — and in the U.S. in particular.
    3. They’ve annexed islands from many, if not most, of their nearest neighbors.
    4. They annexed Tibet entirely.
    5.
    They threaten to invade and conquer Taiwan.
    6. They suppress democracy in Hong Kong.
    7. They perpetrate genocide, internment in prison camps, and other human rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities.
    8. They’re trying to steal the South China Sea from the international community by attempting to extend their sovereign waters well beyond the 12 miles allowed under international law, to 200 miles. This would greatly disrupt world trade, and doubtless enable them to charge exorbitant ‘right-of-passage’ fees to non-Chinese cargo ships that they did allow in ‘their’ waters.
    9. Their courts of law are sham ‘kangaroo courts’ in which the ‘administration of the law’ amounts to forced confession to government charges, almost always resulting in draconian sentences, often to ‘gulags.’
    10. They’re becoming ever-increasingly authoritarian, and have allowed the rise of Xi Jinping, a de-facto dictator. This destabilizes the world order.

    So no, the Chinese government is not worthy of trust.

    So why should I install a browser by means of which that the Chinese government is probably just going to spy on me anyway?

    Here’s one of many, many articles you can read on this topic:

    How China can spy on your electronics — even in the U.S.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-ch...tronics-even-in-the-u-s-60-minutes-2019-08-11
     
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  15. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    OK guys, here’s how it went.
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    https://ytmp4.site

    Malwarebytes Premium 4.4.11 says “Website blocked due to malvertising,” which it defines as “online advertising to distribute malware with little to no user interaction required.”

    Anyway, a little research revealed it only downloads videos in m4a format (a type of mpeg-4 just for audio).

    https://ytmp3eu.com/en45/ for audio/music download

    This runs online (not available as a downloadable app to run on a user’s PC); downloads only from YouYube but in only in mp3 (audio) format.
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    4K Video Downloader
    https://www.4kdownload.com/welcome

    This downloads a setup file 4kvideodownloader_4.19.3_x64_online.exe. Running the setup installs app 4kvideodownloader.exe at C:\Program Files\4KDownload\4kvideodownloader.

    After closing the pay webpage and searching for the exe in IObit Uninstaller (Cortana couldn’t find it) and creating a shortcut and pinning it to the desktop or taskbar, this worked fine.

    Thanks, plodr!
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    jdownloader2

    Didn’t try it, as 4K Video Downloader works fine.
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    Thanks, everybody!
     
  16. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    I appreciate the response on the issue. You have concerns over spying, and so do I.
    But, my main concern is not with China, it's India.
    India is known for spying...you can look it up on Google...and you will see a whole page of pictures of Indian spies...some of them pretty gruesome.
    Canada, or "North America" is literally filled with "Indian spies"....they may not be the "James Bond" type, but they are here.
    How do I know this? Well, I was spied on by a whole family of Indian spies...they became obsessed with me, and when I rejected them, they tried to murder me in a revenge plot.
    I am still dealing with this issue, today. It is not known if I will survive, because the government here is involved in a coverup over the whole issue. They can't "fix" this problem, so they are trying to bury it; myself included.
    I was actually turned into a spy by members of "CSIS" because of this issue...but that was done in order to silence me, or control this mess from ever becoming public.
     
  17. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    david.p —

    Obviously, you’re making jokes as deliberately broad as they are dismissive. I don’t have any problem with that.

    My only objection is, if you’re gonna joke so publicly, make at least a couple of your jokes funny.
     
  18. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    Sorry guy, this is not a joke. Everything I said is true, and I am involved with CSIS.
     
  19. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    Oh, so yer one o’ them mum’s-NOT-the-word double-naught spies, eh? Wow, you ARE just like James Bond!

    OK then, mutual full disclosure: I’m an Elvis-Sasquatch space alien.

    Honest.
     
  20. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    I'm being as honest as I can, guy.
    I can see you aren't taking this seriously...but that's all I can do.
    Your reaction is part of the problem with the whole thing.
    When you go to authorities, or the police regarding this kind of thing....they don't take you seriously, and you get NO help.
    I reported this spying (or stalking) to the police in another province(Ontario), where this all began.
    Do you know what they told me? They told me to move...get out of that apartment. That's it...no help at all. Then, I contacted CSIS about it...big mistake...since they are trying to cover the whole thing up.
     
  21. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    Uh huh. And the Earth is flat. And the moon isn't real, it's just am image projected by the Illuminati up onto a gigantic dome that covers the Earth. And no, that dome isn't even the Firmament of the Bible, it's a manmade dome that's all part of their sinister plot to make us think there's a Universe beyond the Earth. (Funny no one noticed all that construction.) And zombies are real. And recent giant wildfires in the U.S. were caused by fake snow that burns instead of melts. And that snow was created by Bill Gates. Take some Thorazine and breathe into a paper bag.
     
  22. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    OK, guy, have it your way.

    I don't need any medication, and I don't use drugs....can you say the same?
    I don't appreciate the response...but you ARE an American, and you have quite the attitude.
     
  23. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    No, you are a nut, and the cops and anyone else you tell this nonsense to will tell you the same.

    And what makes you think I’m an American? I’m not. You must have jumped to that conclusion just because you don’t think things out very well. So why should I care if you don’t appreciate my response?

    But this is fun. Seriously. Keep it coming. Please. I’m sure you’re amusing the rest of the members of this forum, too. It’s not me they’re shaking their heads over.
     
  24. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    Well, what are you?
    A jackass? If you only knew the truth...but you can't handle it.
     
  25. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    Hilarious! More, please...
     
  26. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    Sorry for the delay, just finished eating.

    Glad you find the whole thing amusing...but I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with you...mentally, that is.
    I hope you don't speak for everyone at Majorgeeks, as that would be a "Major" disaster.
    Perhaps you're really Sergeant Snafu in disguise...my apologies.
     
  27. Skullduggery's Dupe

    Skullduggery's Dupe Master Sergeant

    So, “I know you are, but what am I?” and “I’m rubber, you’re glue, anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you”…?!

    Congratulations — your logic is absolutely UNASSAILABLE!
     
  28. david.p

    david.p Private E-2

    That response is about what I expect from you.
    Not impressed; that's the most immature statement I've ever read.

    Since you don't know what you're talking about, I'll have to let it pass, and end this conversation for good. You're not worth my time.
     
  29. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    This thread is done...
     
  30. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member

    Seriously, people? This is a software thread and you turn it into just more of the bs this world is dealing with? Keep your crap to yourselves from now on when you are offering computer advice. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I can tell you something you can count on...no one wants to hear it.
    Agreed
     
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