My bottomline is this. If this what is needed for YouTube to survive, I'm all for it. The alternate is YouTube shutting down (like what gfycat.com did) and years of stuff .. Just vanished. Source: 6 months ago

Yt-dlp https://gfycat.com/@killsapo [Gfycat] Extracting URL: https://gfycat.com/@killsapo [Gfycat] @killsapo: Downloading video info ERROR: [Gfycat] @killsapo: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by ); please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U. Source: 11 months ago

You can use https://gfycat.com/ and https://streamable.com to easily convert YouTube videos/Twitch clips/Twitter videos (the latter of which also supports audio without the need to create an account). Source: 11 months ago

Another victim of the VC squeeze; Gfycat is just straight up shutting down September 1st. Source: 11 months ago

Gfycat is apparently being permanently discontinued, according to its front page:. Source: 11 months ago

Unsure if you watch on a browser or not, but Never Ending Netflix is a chrome extension I use to skip all the intros and those "are you still watching?" dialogs. Works great! Source: almost 3 years ago