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[Error] How to fix "confirm you are not a bot"? Also why does download always have to "sleep"? #1914

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rn0BdQEnws


Hi, so the first question apparently is the fact that this app has virtually no documentation for laymen users like me to understand how to use it.

I constantly encounter the error saying "confirm you are not a bot" and it does not allow me to download. (Through a strenuous session of Googling the only solution is to keep downloading a cookie file by using a third-party extension on Google Chrome whenever you open YouTube, and the cookie file expires every 10 minutes. So you will have to repeat this tedious step again and again and again.)

This app looks pretty but there is virtually no documentation on how to use it. The features in the app aren't explained either.

Then, I've downloaded some other GUI apps as well. The ones that work, none works like this one, which requires the program to "sleep" every time it initiates a download? Why? Open Video Downloader is immediate. Why does this one need to sleep for 20 seconds just to download a short clip?

If possible, please make some documentation so that users can understand better on how to use this GUI. I mean, most of us aren't programmers and we aren't very familiar with command lines. Even if it's a GUI I still don't really understand how to use it unless instructions are given.

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App: Nickvision Parabolic
Version: 2026.5.0
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11
Deployment Mode: Local
Locale: en-US
yt-dlp: 2026.6.9
deno: 2.8.0
ffmpeg: n8.1.1-8-gb21e00eda5-20260524 
aria2: 1.37.0

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