Warning re YouTube "Smart Downloads"
YouTube has a feature (I'm unsure if this is restricted to YouTube Premium
or not -- probably since it involves downloads) where it will *automatically*
download to your local device memory various videos that it guesses you
might want to watch locally. Since I don't ever have a need for this,
I've never turned this feature on.
However, I've now on two Android devices found it enabled anyway, happily
using up memory and wifi network bandwidth, and had to manually disable
on both and use the "delete downloads" option to remove the videos
it had already downloaded and recover that space.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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