Today, we are gathered to smoke this engineer:
Despite being an engineer at Amazon, he's decided to ship his own product - Cliply. On the surface it's a harmless, easy video downloader. But.. let's talk about it.
It's misleading.
Let's open the website. What do we see?
Free.
The problem is, it isn't. At all. It's $25 a year, for what's literally an yt-dlp Python wrapper in an Electron app.
But hey, if you don't want to pay, guess how easy to crack it is!
You're seeing that right. The entire app is obfuscated and editable.
I am trying to hold in my laughter at this monstrosity. This idiot vibe coded a yt-dlp wrapper, tried to charge for it, didn't hide his mistakes, and didn't even protect his code. Wow.
Someone also pointed this out, which from what I can tell is likely very true with how cutthroat YouTube have been:
The only info related to cookies i could find in my quick scrapes was this which.. Netscape? What?
The fact that people have the guts to build this kind of stuff, then CHARGE for it and MARKET IT ON MAIN baffles me. Please, don't buy this garbage. Use Cobalt, or learn yt-dlp if you really want.
Quit shipping slop and expecting people to eat out of your hand.