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yt-dlp is a frontend.
No? It downloads the videos. Your video player is the "frontend".
not technically a fronted. however, if you use it mainly for downloading YT content, it will run into the same problem as many frontends.
it will, theoretically, but it's singular backend, and development efforts can be focused on it specifically, rather than something like vanced, which is integrating more heavily with the yt UI itself, whereas yt-dlp doesn't care at all, and just rips the content spit out.
I would hope most front ends are using yt-dlp as the backend, but i suspect they're just tacking shit on top of the youtube web ui instead, unfortunately.
it's a backend, the front end would be something like jellyfin, obviously the shitpost here being that this was a topic about frontends, if you want my opinion though, all frontends are dead, and backends are where it's at. You can even integrate yt-dlp as a backend to something like VLC so that it operates as a real frontend.