This site is 100% private — no uploads, no proxy. Browser CORS and YouTube's signature ciphers make in-tab ripping unreliable, so we recommend a quick two-step that keeps everything on your machine:

1. Install yt-dlp — Windows: winget install yt-dlp · macOS: brew install yt-dlp
2. Grab the video as MP4: yt-dlp -f "bv*+ba/b" --merge-output-format mp4 "PASTE_URL_HERE"
3. Drop the resulting .mp4 into the upload zone below — resize, re-encode, or convert to GIF, all in your browser.

Why this way? Pure browser-based downloading would require a proxy server, which would break the privacy promise. yt-dlp on your own machine keeps it offline.