I don't have any issues currently with yt-dlp. I use a vpn and a burner account. You'll want to login to your burner account in a privacy / incognito tab so you don't change the cookies. Then you'll need to export the cookies to a file. Finally, have yt-dlp use the cookies with --cookies.
You're gonna have to make use of yt-dlp's --download-archive parameter, otherwise it's gonna become very difficult to keep track of what you've already got and what's left, because, like you said, you're going to be throttled repeatedly.
$ yt-dlp --get-id $channel$ yt-dlp --get-id $channel > archive.txtyoutube AB1cD2eF3Gh
youtube iJ4KL5MN6OP
youtube QR7StUvWxYz
...$ yt-dlp --download-archive archive.txt $channelWow, thank you so much, this information will come in handy. I wasn't aware of this stuff, so I've just been dealing with not knowing which videos got downloaded and which didn't.
I just did a 400 odd video channel a few days ago with zero issues. I was using jdownloader2 which is my choice of downloader.
Your mistake was going into youtube comments at all.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: These mainstream enshittifed normie platforms need to be scraped for whatever useful content that they have on them and should otherwise be used sparingly. Specifically, regarding the commenting thing, I think sometime in the late 2010s or so we reached a point to where you have to categorize your online accounts into three different types that dictate how you'll behave. The first is social media accounts where your identity is known, and you have to be on your best behavior for the powers that be. The second is anonymous accounts that have heavy restrictions. These are a little trickier to deal with because with these you get a little more freedom than you would on, say, Facebook (you are more likely to be able to swear without someone sperging out). The third is traditional Web 1.0/2.0 style accounts which have few restrictions, like on Kiwi Farms.
A correction since I'm doing this again with another channel. The only command you have to do is the last one
$ yt-dlp --download-archive archive.txt $channel
I'm bookmarking all the shit I follow and I recently started to download course university lectures. It's not necessarily the risk of them getting deleted (for now), but with the search functions being so useless, it's only a matter of time before them getting flooded by all the pajeet tutorials that a spamming the results burying the better (English or native speaking ones) ones. Even more depressingly, these older dudes are also dying off, so you won't see any "new" good books and lectures on the Internet in the near future related to actually learning stuff.
Tons of stuff disappears from YT all the time, especially now. People will sometimes delete or private videos, while YT forces removal of a ton of stuff for all kinds of reasons (often bullshit reasons). Stuff like the Shepard Smith and Bud Dwyer videos can almost certainly be found on WatchPeopleDie.tv and similar sites.
Remember to liberally use the "Before:[year]" search parameter to easily filter through pozzed garbage.
What was the block message? This sounds more like the TOR site blocks ProtonVPN but not Opera's VPN, which happens more often than you'd think. Or it could conceivably be a DNS difference between ProtonVPN and Opera's VPN, but that seems less likely. I don't think it's the browser itself.
