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After intermittent success with yt-dlp on xfinitywifi, it eventually croaked with nothing but HTTP Error 403: Forbidden.  The problem is the alternative downloaders don't do 4k. It's probably blacklisting IP addresses & xfinitywifi is sharing a neighbor's blacklisted IP address. The leading theory now is just to finally invest in a tunneling program for the phone & use the phone's 30GB plan when all other means don't work.  ppp to the phone USB would be the ultimate solution.  Would 1st verify yt-dlp is still broken using the formal tethering plan so the lion kingdom can cancel it. Anyways, upgraded the piano to the latest python in order to try yt-dlp on it & it seemed to be working when run directly on the router.  The MTU hacking required for VPN's to work might break yt-dlp.  The problem is that MTU hack has to apply to the whole machine instead of a container.  This level of hacking has really reached the limit of what can be done with...