docs(android-spike): Q3 POT/Proof-of-Origin findings + verdict (RISKY)
The pivotal gate does NOT block: POT is required on mobile, but WebView-based BotGuard token generation (proven in YTDLnis) is the durable path and collapses the JS-runtime + POT problems into one, killing the Deno/Node sidecar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Q3 — POT / Proof-of-Origin
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_pending_
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**Verdict: RISKY** (the go/no-go gate — and it does NOT block).
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**POT is required** on the mobile surface; you can't reliably skip it for a
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general archiver. The shortcut clients are closing: `android_vr` dropped to
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360p (SABR A/B, Mar 2026) and `tv` was removed from yt-dlp defaults after
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YouTube enforced LOGIN_REQUIRED. **But there is a production-proven path that is
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strictly better than Catacomb's desktop design:** YTDLnis (since v1.8.3, Mar
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2025) runs YouTube's BotGuard JS challenge **inside the Android WebView** and
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passes the resulting web GVS PO token to yt-dlp as an extractor arg. This
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**collapses Q2 and Q3 into one mechanism** — the WebView *is* the JS runtime —
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and **eliminates the Deno/Node sidecar entirely**.
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- **Recommended anti-bot approach:** WebView-based BotGuard/POT generation (à la
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YTDLnis), no sidecar.
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- **Caveats:** tokens are video-bound + ~12h-lived (a WebView attestation call
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per download); native `android`-client DroidGuard tokens remain **unsolved**
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(no open tooling outside genuine Play Services). Fragile cat-and-mouse — must
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track YouTube changes.
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- **Flagged-for-device:** actual token minting + a real download need a device/
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WebView/Google session; not reproducible headlessly here.
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- Full evidence + sources: `q3-pot-android-report.md`.
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## Q4 — Rust core via JNI
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