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The reason why yt makes 4k behind a paywall because streaming in that resolution hurts their revenue, now does watching in newpipe do the same or I'll just drain my battery faster

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[โ€“] moreeni@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I disagree: enough people use youtube-dl and Invidious so Youtube's legal team actually bothered to reach out to those projects. Let's take a look at some stats: