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YT1s not working? It was shut down
yt1s.com and yt1s.gg were among twelve stream-ripping domains closed on October 14, 2025 after IFPI enforcement in Vietnam. IFPI holds yt1s.com, and the domain now serves a notice that the site was shut down for copyright reasons. Sites like yt1s.ltd, yt1ss.pro and yt1s.com.co are unrelated lookalikes.
Published September 16, 2026. Facts are dated and sourced below; individual user reviews are quoted as individual accounts, not as verified findings.
What happened
YT1s came from the same Vietnamese operator group as Y2Mate. When IFPI announced the October 2025 agreement, both yt1s.com and yt1s.gg were on the list of twelve sites the operator agreed to close permanently. IFPI stated that most of the domains, including yt1s.com, are now in its possession. Security scanner MalwareTips describes the yt1s.com domain as seized and serving a static IFPI notice.
Anything still branded YT1s is therefore a different operation. Some converter vendors' blogs point readers to yt1s.com.co or similar domains while warning about "malicious clones" in the same breath. Nobody outside those operators knows who runs them, so the sensible position is not to use any of them.
What YT1s users complained about before the shutdown
Reviews and forum posts going back to 2021 describe heavy pop-up and banner advertising, cloaked buttons that led to unwanted software, and timeouts on long or large files. A 2021 Scratch forum thread captures the recurring experience: "it just stopped working yesterday". After the seizure, the status-checker pages that rank for "yt1s not working" only confirm that the domain no longer serves the converter.
Quick checks
- If yt1s.com shows a notice page, that is the seizure. No setting on your side will change it.
- A YT1s-branded site that still works is a lookalike. You cannot verify who runs it or what its download buttons do.
- Open the video on YouTube first. Private, age restricted, region restricted or removed videos cannot be fetched by any converter.
An ad-free alternative: what AudioFetcher offers
AudioFetcher is the converter we build, so read this section as the developer's description rather than an independent review. The facts below are the ones a visitor can check on the site itself.
| Ads and pop-ups | None. The service is funded by Pro subscriptions and Supporter passes, not ad networks. |
|---|---|
| Installation | None. It runs in the browser on desktop and mobile; a Firefox extension is optional. |
| Free limit | Single videos up to 60 minutes, MP3 up to 320 kbps, FLAC, or the original Opus and M4A streams. One free MP4 per day up to 720p. |
| Paid tier | Pro at $6 a month or $59 a year: audio up to 12 hours, playlists, MP4 to 1080p, priority queue. |
| Extras | Chapter embedding and splitting, SponsorBlock removal, ID3 tags and cover art, subtitles, LRCLIB lyrics, ordered playlist ZIPs. |
| Verification | One Cloudflare Turnstile check before a free conversion. No account for free use. |
| Files | Temporary. Downloads expire after a short window and are deleted; nothing is kept as a library. |
| Content policy | Convert only videos you own or have permission to download. |
Common questions
Is YT1s coming back?
The original operator agreed with IFPI to shut the sites down for good, and IFPI holds the domain. Lookalikes using the name will keep appearing; none is a continuation of the original.
Are all yt1s domains seized?
Only yt1s.com and yt1s.gg were in the IFPI list. yt1s.ltd, yt1ss.pro, yt1s.de and yt1s.com.co were not, which is exactly why they should be treated as unknown third parties rather than as the same service.
Was YT1s safe to use?
It was not classified as malware, but reviewers consistently described intrusive ads and cloaked buttons that could lead to unwanted software. The same ad model applies to the lookalikes.
Other converter status pages
Sources
- IFPI press release, October 14, 2025Lists yt1s.com and yt1s.gg among the twelve closed domains and states IFPI holds yt1s.com.
- TorrentFreak, October 15, 2025Independent coverage of the shutdown.
- MalwareTips URL scan of yt1s.comDescribes the domain as seized and serving a static IFPI notice.
- Scratch forum, September 2021Example of earlier outage reports from users.
Sources support factual statements about third-party services as of the dates shown. Service behaviour changes; check the source before relying on a detail.