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    On 2022 Jan 23 10:52:00, you wrote to Rob Swindell:   
      
    RS>> BTW, I can confirm, youtube-dl is very slow (e.g. 52.56KiB/s) these   
    RS>> days. But I think it's been that way for a while now, at least for   
    RS>> me.   
      
    RL> Same here.  But only for YouTube.  Other sites work much faster.  So I   
    RL> think YouTube is throttling.   
      
   one way to find out would be to take a look at the sources and see what user   
   agent is being used... then change it and see what happens... it may be that   
   the tool is identifying itself and a more generic browser UA could be used...   
      
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   i just found the --dump-user-agent command line option... i don't see anything   
   that appears to allow one to specify a different UA...   
      
   $ /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --dump-user-agent   
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like   
   Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.50 Safari/537.36   
      
   of course, YT might also be analyzing how the downloads are being done and   
   throttling based on certain flow patterns they are seeing...   
      
   but then i look at the following and wonder...   
      
   $ /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp --dump-user-agent   
   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like   
   Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.164 Safari/537.36   
      
   the only difference i see is the Chrome version... hummm :thinking:   
      
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