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I don’t really get the purpose of this broadly, because doesn’t YouTube keep videos online unless the creator took them down which is probably not the case 95% of the time? That said for a niche or a high likelihood of a video being removed, or if you really want to be 100% certain it makes sense, but would I be accurate in that statement or am I missing something?

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My version of this downloads the files to my Plex filesystem so I can watch them on my TV without going through a Youtube app. Also the sponsorblock segments are cut out of my local version after download.

I go even further and schedule TV "channels" that rotate through the local videos using ErsatzTV.

If you ever created a long hundred+ video playlist on YouTube you'd realize that videos go missing very frequently and you'll never know which ones are missing.

It's usually copyright. A large percentage of videos on YouTube are infringing copyright but nobody has noticed or got around to deleting them yet.

I'm not trying to save them forever. I just want them local so I can take clips from them for other videos. I use them as source input to final cut pro.

Would you let someone else have the power to remove books from your library? Oh wait, you probably are

What I'll say is you're either the kind of person who gets fucked once then does something about it, or you just keep getting screwed and complain pathetically when it keeps happening.

I’ve never gone to find a video and it’s gone. Nor have I ever felt the need to take a photo of every building I walk past and find interest in to ensure I have it for posterity in case it is later bulldozed. To each their own but don’t have to be rude about it. Thanks to the other responses. If someone wants to record all the tv they’ve ever watch that is their prerogative, as it is if they do not.

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