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I noticed the website looked quite similar to other websites for downloading videos, and then found the link to your personal website in the footer (which links to your other sites). How/why do you run so many similar websites? Surely the domain name costs alone are insane? And all linked back to your name? Legal liability? Is this profitable?

A 4 letter dotcom registered in 2002. Curious what it was used for, how you got it for this project, and what it's worth on the market if you were to sell it. I feel a sense of awe like it's an old statue.

How much was the domain?

I can see this bieng very important for some people who want to recover local copys of there own work, and also as a generalised way to jail break a good chunk of the internet for ordinary people,giving a sort of personal album of favorites that you dont have to search for, well you know what I mean, at least it's on your phone the idea of copyright bieng theoretical for any of the big outfits scraping up everything for there latest LLM, so it's all whatever , another thing is that these days you need to have blinders on when scrolling the ordinary net as anything, anything at all, might just pop up past the sensors, so saving the good stuff when you find it, and hoping it works as brain wash

I am more surprised by the name! How did you even manage to get the domain?

What's preventing this website from injecting malware or doing other nefarious things before serving the content?

does this use cobalt under-the-hood? or does it have its own implementations?

yt-dlp wrapper?

How do you make money?

Is this not ok?

I can see it being useful as a web app.

I would suggest that you consider also add a mobile app so you have a rounded offering.

As on a regular basis I see a video in tiktok and want to share with people who refuse to join Tiktok, so use one of the many apps available to download and then send via WhatsApp.