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It's a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.
"A couple command line packages", well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as "a couple", this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.
Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.
two doesnt 'qualify' as a couple. two IS couple. a couple is two
This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.
https://youtu.be/qM4zMofsI7w?
This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.
/r/wheredidthesodago, one of my old stomping grounds, was dedicated to this
You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.
rarely use the cli anymore. the gui works pretty well.
on linux at least, its one command to install, one command to run. worth the 'effort'