MechKit

https://stopice.net/ seems like a good option if you don’t have an apple product.

A great project to reuse older devices. Too bad I can’t find and supported devices still in production

This is standard dictator behavior, giving up power for the benefit of their people.

A good backup is to install Seal and share the video to it to download. Seal seems to keep an updated version of yt-dlp that has not failed for me yet. It’s just not for subscriptions and multiple downloads.

There is even a Star Trek-ish game where you have to produce to earn money to upgrade the ship for your crew. I get that it is a game mechanic, but seems like a perfect setting to not have money, and just concentrate on the people.

This sometimes happens when youtube changes something, usually fixed after some days.

Defending yourselves from an invader is inconvenient to our profits.