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		n3xus_ 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silen... I might be out of the loop, but doesn't YouTube already allow downloading videos? I don't understand the purpose of these tools

hollerith 87 days ago [–]

Youtube's iPad app allows you to download videos, but there is no way to extract them from the app (for use for example in a different app or to edit or to upload to a different video-sharing site).

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