Disabling BYTubeD (Posted on: 27 September 2013)
Previously YouTube used to change things in ways which were easy
to adapt to. Now they have started encrypting some portions of
the video URLs. And the encryption schemes are sufficiently
random to consider the effort of chasing around these changes to
be futile, if at all legitimate.
So, highly probably BYTubeD will never be back again in its
normal working condition. The development versions on this site
will continue to be available, but I have disabled the add-on on
addons.mozilla.org.
I do not have any plans to resurrect BYTubeD, given the state of
affairs. Programmers who think they have enough time to spend on
hacking the encrypted URLs can get the existing code of BYTubeD
from here and try
to modify it.
Users who still wish to test their luck may
try version
1.1.2a2.
Adiós amigos!