(But they should be !) On the free side, I like what I'm seeing with youtube-dl-gui, and with TV Downloader. So, *what* am I using currently for video downloads (with good success), you might ask ? Primarily, Fast Video Downloader and VideoGet, neither of which are included in the VH Software section. The much more techie learning curve and difficulty of use with solutions like URLSnooper or RTMPDumpHelper never really appealed to me. In the end I had to saddle it with a whole lot of rules / exceptions - many of which it just ignored - and then to disable it from automatic operation in the FF extensions manager. I had some impressive results with Ant Download Mgr., but over time found its insistent intrusiveness to be quite annoying. Jaksta was Hit or Miss, with a lot of misses. In the past, I also found xVideoServiceThief to be essentially worthless, but had some short-lived and limited success with Tubedigger 3.x. This 6.3.3 version continues on in much that same vein, consistently failing to even detect videos that are playing. (My ratings should be viewed in that light.) I tried this extension a few years ago, and found it semi-worthless then. Maybe the problem is that I'm not yet trying the latest version of this extension. A number of former, good extensions have gone away. It's all up for grabs with FF extensions, ever since their dubious tossing of the prior extensions' APIs, in favor of the new ones.
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