TL;DR below!
On August 18th, like most people showing up here, I was hit by the throttle and - at the time of #
4979 being the latest post - went on writing a big ass long reply reporting/confirming the issue, answering some questions and asking some myself ... only to then realize shortly before sending it that in the meantime @
Leifman had written almost the exact same things word for word
so I scrapped the whole thing to not be mistaken as an alt account of theirs
and read along silently ever since.
On August 29th (!) late afternoon, I noticed youtube dl speeds were back to normal again out of nowhere (almost, peculiarly I had one single yt video downloading at max speed a couple of days before) and that
without me updating JDownloader. So I assumed google had simply lifted the throttle, just like they did last time at some point. Quickly double-checking the JD About, I was still on build #46316 of June 26th. So I checked the plugin timestamps, since I read somewhere that - other than the core - it's possible to force plugin updates silently in the background, but the newest YoutubeDashV2*.class files were still dated June 10th. To me all of that looked like the throttle had coincidentally been lifted around the same time the update was released which, again, I had not manually installed via restart and as far as I could tell also weren't installed automatically without restart either. And this time
I did make screenshots for proof ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by JDmurphy
Then this remains to be weird, since as said I'm sure all my video files were downloaded in chunks until at least mid/late May (while having a keen eye on it but sadly no proof  ) despite daily JD updates |
... so that this doesn't happen again
Anyways, here's my question:
TL;DR
Is it possible that the relevant changes to restore full yt dl speed were applied
a) while JD2 was running - which means 24/7 with no restarts
b) without updating the core - which had been mentioned repeatedly to be necessary
c) without updating the youtube plugin - which I assume are the YoutubeDashV2*.class files
...?
I'm curious to know for technical reasons and also for future reference to be able to tell what's going on.
P.S.: Anyone else observing yt dl speeds going back to normal while JD2 was running continuously without any updates happening?