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  • George Maicovschi · 10 months ago
    They had to come up with something after muting the freaking videos to keep themselves a share of users, hadn't they? :-)
  • Cody K · 10 months ago
    I'm not sure I would want to download anything from YouTube, considering how much they compress everything.
  • Jessica Jones · 6 months ago
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  • Ryan · 10 months ago
    What? hello firefox add ons can get any video
  • Anrkist · 10 months ago
    @Glenn Batuyong - Not everyone digs Podcasts... I guess if you're on a Mac you might... but honestly, Itunes on PC is pretty lame. There's just far better things on a PC to listen to audio with... heck, I'd take WMP over it.

    Other's already pointed it out but Youtube is a little too late, there's multiple ways to download a video... if you really want to Rickroll yourself that much.
  • Rod Low · 10 months ago
    It would be really cool if they offer download videos from all categories. It can help educators like us share the videos to our students easily.
  • Sean · 10 months ago
    Not really a big deal. There are several methods to download youtube videos already.

    I'm surprised they haven't released a download feature sooner though.
  • jaca101 · 10 months ago
    Google already has this video
  • meg · 10 months ago
    um...it's definitely already offered elsewhere on the site. However, as one user earlier stated, the videos are so compressed that the quality is very poor.
  • Briele Chittim · 10 months ago
    @Kody K - agreed. Vimeo, yes. In fact, there is an initial internet high that is still prevailing - remember your first acid trip... thought this was going to change the world... but what isn't changing in v/t is quality. Everything duplicates like fractal iterations on steroids... gadgetry and whizz-bang goes forth and multiplies... but quality is grinding to a halt. Prove me wrong.
    B.
  • Sanjeev Kumar · 10 months ago
    Thanks a lot for the information. That is good if You tube is doing that. As you said there are lots of freewares (recently I saw one in my digit CD also) that dowload You Tube video on the computer. Some you Tube videos are really good and helpful. - Internet Techies
  • Digital Web Talk · 10 months ago
    rite... while it would be gr8 to have portable youtube videos it'll have a lot of copyright issues b4 they make it a free download!!
  • sonintpen · 10 months ago
    Seems that youtube may be finally responding to conscientious protesters like PwnYouTube. If the protest over fair use doesn't sway them, which is unlikely, then the business reality that a youtube download is never more than 4 keystrokes away from anyone using any browser or platom eventually will.

    (FYI, 3 keystrokes: When you view any youtube video on youtube.com, type 'PWN' (3 keys) in front of 'youtube' and hit Enter (4th key).
  • Sam · 10 months ago
    They compress the video quite a lot at youtube, I'm guessing they are going to increase the quality for downloads...
  • Timothy · 10 months ago
    I wouldn't be suprized if this was due to the fact that Google recently announced the end of Google Video, which has a download feature (which rocks).
  • David · 10 months ago
    As though users don't rip and re-upload enough already. Now it'll be easier. Awesome, can't wait to see nothing but the same video 5x on the side as a "related" video.
  • Screen Sleuth · 10 months ago
    Timothy: Yep, that could be it...would make sense..capitalizing on the opportunity.

    After viewing YouTube on and off for awhile..why would anyone WANT to download most of this stuff? It's poor quality, grainy amateur stuff for the most part.
  • Maria Popova · 10 months ago
    Not surprising – this has actually been a feature of the Better YouTube Firefox extension for a long while, a rather popular one with the Firefox crowd. It's only natural that YouTube would look to the most popular open-source improvements of their service and, um, "close-source" them and make their own version to use straight on YouTube.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, since it's clearly informed by a user need. So good for them, I guess. In fact, it shouldn't have taken them that long to come up with in the first place.
  • kovshenin · 10 months ago
    I don't think that anybody's gonna need that, cuz everyone's grabbin' YouTube videos using plugins, freemusiczilla and sites like keepvid.com :\
  • sha'kimbreya · 10 months ago
    For the lady who tried to the waz up with that cookie dance you can not do it so please do ever do that again in your life because I showed all the middle school in albany ga they buss out laughing at that and they was joking but I still feel kind of sorry for you
  • buddi budinski · 9 months ago
    it's the end of free youtube downloading. watch this space.
  • buddi budinski · 9 months ago
    it's the end of free youtube downloading. watch this space.
  • Jessica Jones · 6 months ago
    Keep Tube is the best online video downloader!

    http://keep-tube.com

    There is no need for installing any software or script.

    It gives you 5 different options for downloading youtube videos including HD quality mp4 files.

    Here is a comparison of famous video downloader websites with Keep Tube:
    http://keep-tube.com/comparison.php

    Keep Tube support lots of other popular websites too: (popular adult websites as well)
    http://keep-tube.com/supported-websites.php

    Try it for yourself: http://keep-tube.com

    Best,
    -Jessica <3
  • carlos · 6 months ago
    Hi. Fast and simple is www.vid2pc.com
    I have used every days.

    Thanks
  • ali · 6 months ago
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