It’s really hard to save videos on the Internet, now – is this entirely to do with the video player/website? Or are web browsers part of the problem?
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The biggest hurdle with saving video files is that they nowadays get broken up into small segments. Apart from intentionally making downloading harder, this also enables the distributor to cache individual segments on mirror servers, and to switch quality levels on the fly. You can no longer extract a single URL and download it. This issue also happens with new style “radio” streams. You need some kind of a program like “YouTube-DL” to interpret the playlist and join the video together. But those programs need to be constantly updated to keep up with changes that web site authors make.
Web browsers have also been getting more oriented for content consuption, and have been removing advanced features. Most often the playback is done by an “app” downloaded from the server, which has no interet in allowing download.
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