The README for youtube-dl mandates the incorrect line ending convention for macOS

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The README page for youtube-dl states

Make sure you have correct newline format in the cookies file and convert newlines if necessary to correspond with your OS, namely CRLF (\r\n) for Windows, LF (\n) for Linux and CR (\r) for Mac OS.

However, this has not been true for over fifteen years, far before this project, YouTube, GitHub, or even Git existed. While Mac OS 9 did use \r as a newline character, macOS has always followed the UNIX convention of \n since its 2001 release. I’m honestly baffled as to how this mistake occurred.

To summarize: Windows uses \r\n, and everything else uses \n.