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Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling

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Can you make one for Firefox too? ;-)

it's a simple script, should be portable to firefox with minor modifications. The source code is available on Github [0]. 0: https://github.com/Andrews54757/Anti-Anti-Debug

I don't think this will work out-of-the-box in Firefox. Firefox handles the console object differently than Chrome, especially when it comes to the console.clear() method.

In Firefox, when a console is cleared, it's not just the display that's cleared. The entire console object is reset. This means that any modifications made to the console object, such as redefining console.clear(), are lost when console.clear() is called.

You can try this on this demo [1] website that uses devtools-detector library [2]

[1] https://blog.aepkill.com/demos/devtools-detector/

[2] https://github.com/AEPKILL/devtools-detector

Re: Bypassing YouTube video download throttling

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"Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of "these" websites. It's much more complicated than you might think." This reminds me of some sort of fizzbuzz test. This is not complicated at all. There is no need to use the Range header or run Javascript. The short script below does not download anything because there is no need. It do…

This is demonstration of W3C Ethical Web Principles 6.11 and 6.12

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

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