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With around 4.80 billion people using the internet today, about 61% of the world’s population, and more than 700,000 new users joining daily, one would have thought these are the ultimate numbers. Surprisingly, most YouTube users are unaware that YouTube alone had more than 10 billion downloads, surpassing the global population!
The growing popularity of YouTube video content is the second-largest search engine after Google and user-friendly platform. Apart from being popular, the videos are easy to share, resulting in them spreading fast and to a massive digital audience. The videos are shared mainly in music, entertainment, comedy, and (how-to).
Millions of YouTube videos are uploaded daily. However, many of them are cute clips that one can avoid; specific videos would like to watch. This could be a problem for users having weak or non-existent internet connections. Many would like to cut back on their data usage, download a youtube video and continue to watch.
Why do Users Download Videos?
It is easy to download a YouTube video, save them and watch them later at one’s convenience. The question that can come to one’s mind is whether it is illegal to download YouTube videos?
Google owns YouTube, and it earns its revenue from advertising and subscriptions. Google also allows one to watch video content for free and return for clicking on ads played on the YouTube video content. Downloading to watch offline is not illegal though there could be morality issues.
For personal use, it is not illegal though Google does not encourage such practices. This is the reason why one will not find any YouTube download apps on the Google play store. Still, one can find plenty of free-to-use YouTube downloader apps on the internet that enables one to download videos in different formats. These applications are easy to use, and the downloaders support MP3 and MP4 formats easily.
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