savemedia.com and such sites

Dewi Jones

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04 Aug 12

Dewi Jones

Joined: 13 Apr 12
Moves: 8179

04 Aug 12

I want to save some videos from youtube. Sites such as savemedia ask me to install their downloader, which looks well dodgy to me. Am I right to assume it's dodgy?

ChessPraxis

Cowboy From Hell

American West

Joined: 19 Apr 10
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04 Aug 12

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Originally posted by Dewi Jones
I want to save some videos from youtube. Sites such as savemedia ask me to install their downloader, which looks well dodgy to me. Am I right to assume it's dodgy?

Why do we care if someone is using a dodgy download?

Woodgie

DISCO!

Joined: 11 Mar 06
Moves: 29627

04 Aug 12

Originally posted by Dewi Jones
I want to save some videos from youtube. Sites such as savemedia ask me to install their downloader, which looks well dodgy to me. Am I right to assume it's dodgy?

Obviously, downloading videos from Youtube may go against their T&C's, one would have to investigate.

But if one were to use Firefox and then install the download helper:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

One could in fact do what you request.