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Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download video...
--user-agent "" --no-mtime
gaius
on July 5, 2018
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It obviously seemed like a good idea in 1991 but in retrospect the User-Agent header was probably a bad idea. TBL never anticipated it would be abused by servers for this, and for browser fingerprinting...
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