Terms of Service breach?
Author: geoganCreated Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
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- I've read the NO AI / NO LLM POLICY and understand I may be blocked from the repository if it is violated
- I'm asking a question and not reporting a bug or requesting a feature
- I've looked through the README
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I can't be sure this message when I tried opening Youtube today is related to this software or not.... I've never seen it before anyway... and I don't use anything else that I know of that might trigger this. I think I might have downloaded one hour long (low res) video of about 660MB yesterday only. Nothing like previously when a rogue playlist downloaded 90GB of youtube music videos!
I don't know what the timestamp of 15:03 is about... I was not near Youtube at all at that time. Anyway nice of them to throw that shit at a paying Youtube Premium member!
Provide verbose output that clearly demonstrates the problem
- Run your yt-dlp command with -vU flag added (
yt-dlp -vU <your command line>) - If using API, add
'verbose': TruetoYoutubeDLparams instead - Copy the WHOLE output (starting with
[debug] Command-line config) and insert it below
Complete Verbose Output
Source: yt-dlp/yt-dlp