#17685·yt-dlp

Terms of Service breach?

Author: geoganCreated Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
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Please make sure the question is worded well enough to be understood

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': True to YoutubeDL params instead
  • Copy the WHOLE output (starting with [debug] Command-line config) and insert it below

Complete Verbose Output