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Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited

by @Tyrrrz tyrrrz.me

Back in 2017 I wrote an article in which I attempted to explain how YouTube works under the hood, how it serves streams to the client, and also how you can exploit that knowledge to download videos from the site. The primary goal of that write-up was to…

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