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[4] Google Chrome Team. (2025). Manifest V3: Changes to webRequest API . developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/.

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At a technical level, a download extension operates by intercepting the stream before it is rendered by the browser’s video player. When a user watches a YouTube video, they are not downloading a file in the traditional sense; they are receiving a continuous stream of data packets that are buffered and discarded. This is the "You" in YouTube—the content exists "out there," not "in here." [4] Google Chrome Team

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