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Google Chrome is flagging YouTube downloader tool yt-dlp as suspicious

Is this a defensive move by the tech giant, or simply a false positive?
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Finally, to fully utilize the YouTube download function of yt-dlp, a JavaScript runtime such as Deno is required, and the installation procedure is like this

YouTube's specifications are extremely complex and change frequently. The yt-dlp development team previously supported YouTube using a method that heavily relied on regular expressions. However, in ...
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Downloading YouTube videos with yt-dlp will require the installation of a JavaScript runtime such as Deno.

As a result, the development team switched to a JavaScript-based approach. Because this JavaScript code is too complex to be executed by the JavaScript interpreter built into yt-dlp , it is now ...