Can you tell by the network traffic whether a video was watched or downloaded from YouTube?
- by humanityANDpeace
My question is about quite popular YouTube downloaders like youtube-dl (a command line program) or VideoDownloadHelper (a Firefox-browser extension).
Comparing two cases:
Watching a video on YouTube
Download the video using a downloader (to be specific let's assume youtube-dl)
Is it possible to tell – for instance by inspecting the network traffic – that the video was downloaded and not "only watched" on YouTube?
Maybe one could compare network traffic using programmes like Wireshark? I cannot do that myself, but maybe this will help somebody to answer the question.