YouTube Video Download

By rossy! Last update Jan 10, 2013 — Installed 1,252,489 times.

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little_racoon User
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What is this visitor cookie thing in the new 3.1 version? Could anybody explain it to me? Thanks!

 
rossy! Script's Author
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I was experimenting with support for download managers at one stage and it turns out that YouTube signs every download link with a random key that's stored in a cookie (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE). If you set this cookie to the same value in two different programs, you can copy/paste video links between the two. This option sets the value to "AAAAAAAAAAA".

I've been meaning to write up something about how it works for a while.