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What am I missing here?

I paste a Youtube link into one of the hundreds of Google results for "Youtube downloader" and I get a bunch of clear Google video download links in various formats.

I paste a URL into "PWN Youtube" and I get this (buried in a mass of other text I don't care about, hard selling me to spam the site on FB/Twitter/Friends):

    Download this video as FLV or MP4 files
    Use one of: Peggo | Telecharger(warning) | SaveFrom
        9xbuddy(warning) | File2HD (?) | Dirpy(warning)
If I have to jump through another hoop of visiting some other dodgy website - some literally have warnings next to them (!) - to eventually get a download link, what's the point of "PWN Youtube"? Why don't I just use the dodgy sites directly (or, even easier, use their bookmarklets)?

> This website is not affiliated with YouTube.com "YouTube" is a copyright of YouTube, LLC.

Probably shouldn't be using the word/trademark in its domain name then.



good point; i've been using that link for a long time so it's second nature to me to ignore the warnings




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