I¡¯ll be traveling quite a bit over the next 6-12 months. I watch a fair number of YouTube videos, and I¡¯ve just created a ¡°Premium¡± trial subscription, whose purpose for me is primarily to download videos from YouTube, LEGALLY.
I¡¯ve discovered that requires using the Chrome, Edge, or Opera browsers. First question is that I don¡¯t know whether there IS an Edge browser for the Mac, or whether when the requirements say ¡°Chrome,¡± that truly means GOOGLE¡¯s browser, which I suspect IS the case (I¡¯ve not tried others).
Even within Chrome, I¡¯m not really sure how it works. If I begin watching a video, the ¡°ellipsis¡± (more options here) control-click menu lists ¡°download,¡± but it¡¯s not clear to me what actually happens; i.e., is the video saved in a Mac file format as it¡¯s being played in real time, or does it download to a folder on the Mac? The latter seems NOT likely, because several minutes in to a 2 hour video being played in Chrome, there¡¯s no new file in my /Downloads folder.
YouTube Premiums terms of use say that downloaded videos are automatically removed after 30 days. How can YouTube erase files that are ON my Mac?
I¡¯ve just learned about Private Relay and turned it on. I think it only works in specifically chosen apps, perhaps only in Safari on the Mac. Chrome is not listed as an app in which it can be toggled to ¡°on,¡± nor are any other browsers listed (but Safari and Chrome are the only browsers currently on my Mac)
I¡¯d be interested in other list members experiences with Private Relay, beyond those pertinent to YouTube file downloads. ?
