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Should yt-dlp be used behind a VPN? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Only recently discovered yt-dlp, despite its popularity. However I was wondering if I were to use this, should it be used behind a VPN when downloading videos off public websites?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless you actively pay attention it's very easy to be logged into some Google service without noticing. At least I wouldn't be surprised if chrome background services kept me logged into my work Google Mail account and kept tracking my IP.

The biggest question is how meaningful the IP alone is. I don't know if VPNs assign people individual IP-adresses or if there's some kind of NAT in use where people share an IP with translated ports. If the information is "there's this individual VPN-user and we need to connect them to a name" then you shouldn't use (the same) VPN for everything, but if it's just "there's another request from the same VPN" then it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The IP address is shared between all people who connect to the same VPN server.