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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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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Typically if you can’t save the video it’s because the data of the video are encrypted.

YouTube knows how to “decode” this encryption inside their code for the website. Although the stream may come from one of it’s many data servers, the front end(web page) has a “key” that knows how to read the video data.

If you want to bypass all of that, just screen capture the video. Or use a capture card that sits between your monitor and the computer.