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Convert Downloaded Videos Free Gihosoft TubeGet is also good at converting downloaded YouTube videos from WebM to MP4, AVI, MOV & MKV at fast speed for easy playback on Android & iPhone devices. Maintaining the underpinnings of a functioning democracy is more important than some private monopoly’s terms of service. One-click download mode allows you to download YTB videos in just one click, as long as you preset the download format, download quality & output directory in advance. (In fact, *that* was the reason youtube-dl was reinstated on GitHub after Microsoft took it down, and I assume it’s the reason yt-dlp has not been rousted so far. In the Western world, certainly, YouTube still enjoys a strongly dominant position in video-hosting and hence the ability to shape the information people can see - which is known as “manufacturing consent.” For journalists, academics, lawyers, and activists, it’s *critical* to be able to download copies of certain videos before Alphabet/Google/YouTube gets around to taking them down.

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YouTube has *dramatically* increased the amount of censorship it does (via outright takedowns and also by making videos it doesn’t like unfindable in search), and it no longer targets only speech that isn’t protected under the First Amendment (e.g., teaching viewers how to cook up a batch of nerve gas in their kitchens), but legitimate, protected reporting, analysis, and opinion. Technically, downloading videos violates YouTube’s terms of service, but there is a superseding issue here. Were you using FDM for downloading YouTube videos? What are your alternatives? Take a look at our previous article for more ways to download videos. Meanwhile, you can use other programs like YouTube-DL, yt-dlp, youtube-dl-gui, XDM, IDM, FireDM (formerly PyIDM). The page's disappearance does seem like a serious issue, and it remains unclear whether FDM will add support for YouTube downloads again.
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Here's a Web Archive version of it from April 2021. The YouTube page on FDM's site has also been pulled, and gives a 404. I mentioned earlier that the developer had to "turn off the option for YouTube", this is likely the intermediary service that was taken down. The other theory is that Free Download Manager relies on an external service for YouTube downloads, probably to parse the video links (fetch the metadata, URLs, resolution, etc.) and sends it to the program for download. It seems unlikely, since I was able to download the videos using other programs. One, something has changed on YouTube's end, which is causing the error. So why were older versions displaying the error? Clearly this error isn't specific to the version being used, so it has to be server related problems. I was manually copying the YouTube video's URL and pasting it in the program. Though I had the FDM extension installed in the browser, I wasn't using it to grab the media. So, I went all the way back to version 5, and it still gave me an error, but this time it said "Parsing failure.
