Youtube didn’t like my IP; so after a lot of fighting; I just torified that shit and it worked
If you get a 429: Too many requests. Youtube-dl won’t be able to get a video stream.
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They forked youtube-dl a while back, and managed to make it to actually download fast. Uses the same command line arguments, so it's a seamless switch.

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@alyx hopefully they found a way to get around YT dumping connections :/
@alyx i tried it out and wow, is it fast.
I ain’t going back lol
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