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In June 2023, YouTube forced Matt Wright, maintainer of the YouTube Metadata tool, to remove the exporting feature which let people export YouTube metadata such as video descriptions into a file. This did not include the videos themselves. It can be assumed that this is the "tip of an iceberg" and YouTube made many such requests without them being publicly documented.<ref> | In June 2023, YouTube forced Matt Wright, maintainer of the YouTube Metadata tool, to remove the exporting feature which let people export YouTube metadata such as video descriptions into a file. This did not include the videos themselves. It can be assumed that this is the "tip of an iceberg" and YouTube made many such requests without them being publicly documented.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ingram |first=Benjamin |title=Export Feature? #150 |url=https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/discussions/150 |website=[[GitHub]] |date=5 Jun 2023 |access-date=12 Apr 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251214094758/https://github.com/mattwright324/youtube-metadata/discussions/150 |archive-date=14 Dec 2025}}</ref> | ||
===Prevention of offline video preservation (downloading)=== | ===Prevention of offline video preservation (downloading)=== | ||