Okay this really irks me...

I need to be able to download you tube videos. So I looked up several options down on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_YouTube_downloaders

I tried the first two. Both them were picked up by Little Snitch to phone to ad companies. Like seriously... these days everything connects to ad servers

 

I use http://www.clipconverter.cc/

 

You can use adguard for that , but you need to add userscript first

 

Use this.

 

This one is free, opensource, runs on Mac/Win/Linux. http://clipgrab.org/

 

I use youtube-dl from https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/.

 

I use FlashGot (Firefox): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashgot/?src=ss

or

SMPlayer: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

 

Flashgot does not work on Safari.

 

IDM is the best for this..

 

flashgot (firefox addons), eagle get are usually reliable.

i find IDM slighty inconsistent.. sometimes it's give me 404 error.

 

That's because it's a Firefox extension. To be honest, it's the main reason I use Firefox at all these days, as I'm usually in Maxthon on Windows and Android and Chromium on Linux.

 

I can't use anything but Safari on Mac.

 

I fixed my link in my post mattdocs12345 my bad it had a few characters at the end and when you opened it, it resulted in a error the link works fine now, I been using that site for about 2 years it has worked great!!

 

I prefer SaveFrom.net helper http://en.savefrom.net/user.php . (enable the extension when you want to download something and disable it when you don't need it)

Panagiotis