It's not a bad idea to use an older Flash version.
I used YouTube Downloader HD utility, but Google move from normal MP4, to MP4-DASH, and that utility needed an embedded ffmpeg to support it, but that version of ffmpeg didn't support older operative systems. I found a version that supported MP4-DASH, so I used it to download files without that utility, but then (about a month or two
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