For several months, users of youtube-dl (including indirect users, for instance via mpv) have been experiencing bandwidth throttling purposefully imposed by Google:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326
Yet another reason to move to #PeerTube or plain old file self-hosting!
Does yt-download work with peertube ?
The issue with them not allowing yt-download to work is that if I upload a video I should have the right to download it from youtube.
I upload to peertube anyway, at least I have control and there are no adverts before hand.