Here are my sources for youtube-dl not executing non-free JS, at least
for YouTube videos.

https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/222
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Youtube-dl

> Is this also true for websites that require PhantomJS (e.g. Openload)?

I think that depends on whether PhantomJS is used to execute JavaScript
or only used to scrape URLs from the JS without executing it. The above
links seem to indicate that executing JS is unnecessary for YouTube
videos, but it is unclear to me whether or not this is true for
non-YouTube videos.

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