- Sometimes a self employed widely traveling consultant family member has seen or heard about something on YT and would like a copy to watch when it’s convenient (broadband not always available), or to refer to in work/advising
- Build a local archive of videos in which the family member appears
- Home internet over cellular is bandwidth limited so in case of need it’s expensive to just jump on YT and watch same thing over and over, ie
- Very very rarely (couple of times over last 7 years) I find a diy project hits a snag that I can’t resolve by text/still image sources. As I can’t memorize videos, having a local copy would allow for repeated viewing of a video that correctly shows avoiding the snag without repeated burning of cellular data
- As I knowingly use YT/Google products so rarely, I avoid logging in to my account whenver possible and iirc Downie and possibly others don’t require this, so a YT video could be viewed with minimal contribution to the Alphabet Machine
- A friend recently got a new job in science and I couldn’t really visualize what they do, and the employer site had some videos, on YT, that I was able to view for above reasons
- More broadly, I’m not even sure why I save the videos, I very rarely go back and watch them. Some kind of collection habit I suppose, but that’s another topic…
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