diff --git a/backend/app/downloads/backfill.py b/backend/app/downloads/backfill.py
index 47b523c7..b793a770 100644
--- a/backend/app/downloads/backfill.py
+++ b/backend/app/downloads/backfill.py
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ log = logs.get_logger(__name__)
 def _extract_meta(url: str, adapter: adapters.SourceAdapter, asset_id: int) -> dict | None:
     """Metadata-only yt-dlp extraction, using the source adapter's client sets + options (YouTube
     needs the POT/player-client strategy even just to extract)."""
+    with formats.hiding(url):
+        return _extract_meta_scoped(url, adapter, asset_id)
+
+
+def _extract_meta_scoped(url: str, adapter: adapters.SourceAdapter, asset_id: int) -> dict | None:
     for clients in adapter.client_sets():
         opts = formats.build_ydl_opts(
             {}, "%(id)s.%(ext)s", lambda d: None, extra=adapter.ydl_opts_extra(clients)
diff --git a/backend/app/downloads/formats.py b/backend/app/downloads/formats.py
index 1180cf97..22e43f50 100644
--- a/backend/app/downloads/formats.py
+++ b/backend/app/downloads/formats.py
@@ -17,10 +17,15 @@ spec shape (all keys optional; defaults + browser-playability clamp applied by `
 `container`/`vcodec` keys survive only so an old stored profile deserializes without error.
 """
 
+import contextlib
+import contextvars
 import hashlib
 import json
 import logging
+import os
 import re
+import urllib.parse
+from collections.abc import Iterator
 
 from app import logs
 
@@ -38,28 +43,60 @@ _URL_RE = re.compile(r"https?://([^/\s]+)\S*")
 # after it is what `_PATH_RE` takes out.
 _ID_PREFIX_RE = re.compile(r"(\[[\w:.-]+\] )(?!Destination:)[^\s:\[\]]+:")
 # The generic extractor's "id" is the URL's basename, percent-DECODED: `My%20Holiday.mp4` is
-# `My Holiday` — spaces and all, which the pattern above stops at. Only this extractor: every
-# other one names a site id, and letting the prefix run to `: ` everywhere would take the words
-# out of lines like `[VideoConvertor] Converting video from webm to mp4; Destination: …`.
+# `My Holiday` — spaces, brackets, colons and all, which no pattern can bound (`Our Trip: Day 1`
+# ends at which `: `?). The job knows its own URL, so the exact name is taken out as a literal
+# (`hiding`). This pattern is the fallback for a line logged outside that scope: up to the first
+# `: `. Only this extractor: every other one names a site id, and letting the prefix run to `: `
+# everywhere would take the words out of lines like `[VideoConvertor] Converting …; Destination:`.
 _GENERIC_ID_RE = re.compile(r"(\[generic\] )(?!Destination:)[^\[\]\n]+?:(?= |$)", re.M)
 # `[youtube:tab] Playlist <title>: Downloading 5 items` — the title is not an id, and has spaces.
 _PLAYLIST_TITLE_RE = re.compile(r"(\] Playlist ).+?(?=: Downloading )")
 # `[download] Finished downloading playlist: <title>`, `[download] Downloading playlist: <title>`,
 # `… Skipping already downloaded playlist: <title>` — the title runs to the end of the line.
 _TITLE_TAIL_RE = re.compile(r"(playlist: |\[download\] Downloading \w+: ).*", re.I)
-# An id quoted mid-sentence, not as a prefix.
-_BARE_ID_RE = re.compile(r"((?:subtitles not available for|Downloading just video) )[^\s,;]+")
+# An id quoted mid-sentence, not as a prefix: `… not available for <id>`, and `--no-playlist`'s
+# `Downloading just the video <id>` (`_yes_playlist`) / `Downloading just video <id>` (multifeed).
+_BARE_ID_RE = re.compile(
+    r"((?:subtitles not available for|Downloading just (?:the )?\w+) )[^\s,;]+"
+)
 # Two segments or more, and not glued to a word: `www.youtube.com/…` is what the URL pattern
 # leaves behind, and it must survive this one.
 _PATH_RE = re.compile(r"(?<![\w.…])/(?:[^/\s\"']+/)+[^/\s\"']*")
 
 
+_HIDDEN: contextvars.ContextVar[tuple[str, ...]] = contextvars.ContextVar(
+    "formats_hidden", default=()
+)
+
+
+def generic_id(url: str) -> str:
+    """The name yt-dlp's generic extractor gives a URL: its basename, extension off, percent-
+    decoded — `InfoExtractor._generic_id` (2026.07.04), pinned against it in the tests."""
+    return urllib.parse.unquote(os.path.splitext(url.rstrip("/").split("/")[-1])[0])
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def hiding(url: str | None) -> Iterator[None]:
+    """For the work on one URL: `log_safe` also takes out the name yt-dlp's generic extractor
+    gives it, exactly, where yt-dlp puts it (`[generic] <name>:`). A context variable, so it
+    holds for yt-dlp's logger calls too — they run on the same thread as the extraction."""
+    name = generic_id(url) if url else ""
+    token = _HIDDEN.set((*_HIDDEN.get(), name) if name else _HIDDEN.get())
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        _HIDDEN.reset(token)
+
+
 def log_safe(text: object) -> str:
     """yt-dlp's text (its own lines, or a DownloadError's message) with the parts that name a
     person's download taken out. Every log line that carries yt-dlp's words goes through here,
     not just the adapter's: yt-dlp raises the same text it has just logged, so a line that skipped
     it would put back one line later exactly what the adapter took out."""
-    text = _URL_RE.sub(lambda m: f"{m.group(1)}/…", str(text))
+    text = str(text)
+    for name in _HIDDEN.get():
+        text = text.replace(f"[generic] {name}:", "[generic] …:")
+    text = _URL_RE.sub(lambda m: f"{m.group(1)}/…", text)
     text = _ID_PREFIX_RE.sub(r"\1…:", text)
     text = _GENERIC_ID_RE.sub(r"\1…:", text)
     text = _PLAYLIST_TITLE_RE.sub(r"\1…", text)
diff --git a/backend/app/downloads/pipeline.py b/backend/app/downloads/pipeline.py
index 39006d64..d61e99b6 100644
--- a/backend/app/downloads/pipeline.py
+++ b/backend/app/downloads/pipeline.py
@@ -654,30 +654,28 @@ def _download(
         diagnosis = dlerrors.diagnose(msg, url=url, cookie_attached=cookiefile is not None)
         # SEC-12: redact a transport-level readout for user-supplied URLs (see user_error_text).
         msg = dlerrors.user_error_text(source_kind, msg, diagnosis.code)
-        # The line goes out whether or not the write below succeeds: when the database is what
-        # failed, that write fails too, and the failure would otherwise leave no line at all.
-        try:
-            with SessionLocal() as db:
-                asset = db.get(MediaAsset, asset_id)
-                if asset:
-                    asset.status = "error"
-                    asset.error = msg
-                # Atomic fail: only while still running, so a route-set cancel/pause is never
-                # overwritten with `error` (error also holds the asset → would re-open the
-                # double-release class).
-                service.finalize_if_running(
-                    db,
-                    job_id,
-                    status=JobStatus.ERROR,
-                    error=msg,
-                    error_code=diagnosis.code,
-                    error_detail=diagnosis.detail,
-                    phase=None,
-                )
-                db.commit()
-        finally:
-            # silent-ok: not silent — `_log_download_failed` is the report.
-            _log_download_failed(job_id, msg, diagnosis.code, exc)
+        with SessionLocal() as db:
+            asset = db.get(MediaAsset, asset_id)
+            if asset:
+                asset.status = "error"
+                asset.error = msg
+            # Atomic fail: only while still running, so a route-set cancel/pause is never
+            # overwritten with `error` (error also holds the asset → would re-open the
+            # double-release class).
+            service.finalize_if_running(
+                db,
+                job_id,
+                status=JobStatus.ERROR,
+                error=msg,
+                error_code=diagnosis.code,
+                error_detail=diagnosis.detail,
+                phase=None,
+            )
+            db.commit()
+        # After the write: a job the write could not fail is not a failed job. When it raises,
+        # the runner reports this failure with it (`runner._run`) and the worker fails the job.
+        # silent-ok: not silent — `_log_download_failed` is the report.
+        _log_download_failed(job_id, msg, diagnosis.code, exc)
     finally:
         # Unlink the decrypted cookie file explicitly (the rmtree below removes the whole staging
         # tree too, but never leave a plaintext session cookie on disk a moment longer than needed).
@@ -729,40 +727,38 @@ def _fail_edit(job_id: int, asset_id: int, msg: str, exc: BaseException | None =
     where its line and its event code live. `exc` is the exception when there was one.
 
     Its traceback goes with the line unless the message already tells it all (`_failure_stack`).
-    The line goes out whether or not the write succeeds (see the download error path)."""
-    try:
-        with SessionLocal() as db:
-            asset = db.get(MediaAsset, asset_id)
-            if asset:
-                asset.status = "error"
-                asset.error = msg
-            # Atomic fail: only while still running (see the download error path).
-            service.finalize_if_running(
-                db,
-                job_id,
-                status=JobStatus.ERROR,
-                error=msg,
-                error_code=dlerrors.classify(msg),
-                phase=None,
-            )
-            db.commit()
-    finally:
-        # `msg` is the user's copy; ffmpeg's stderr tail in it can name the source file, whose
-        # path is built from the channel and the title.
-        log.warning(
-            "edit job %s failed: %s",
+    Logged after the write, as on the download error path."""
+    with SessionLocal() as db:
+        asset = db.get(MediaAsset, asset_id)
+        if asset:
+            asset.status = "error"
+            asset.error = msg
+        # Atomic fail: only while still running (see the download error path).
+        service.finalize_if_running(
+            db,
             job_id,
-            formats.log_safe(msg),
-            extra={
-                **logs.event(
-                    "edit.job.failed",
-                    job_id=job_id,
-                    asset_id=asset_id,
-                    **({"error_type": type(exc).__name__} if exc is not None else {}),
-                ),
-                **(_failure_stack(exc) if exc is not None else {}),
-            },
+            status=JobStatus.ERROR,
+            error=msg,
+            error_code=dlerrors.classify(msg),
+            phase=None,
         )
+        db.commit()
+    # `msg` is the user's copy; ffmpeg's stderr tail in it can name the source file, whose path is
+    # built from the channel and the title.
+    log.warning(
+        "edit job %s failed: %s",
+        job_id,
+        formats.log_safe(msg),
+        extra={
+            **logs.event(
+                "edit.job.failed",
+                job_id=job_id,
+                asset_id=asset_id,
+                **({"error_type": type(exc).__name__} if exc is not None else {}),
+            ),
+            **(_failure_stack(exc) if exc is not None else {}),
+        },
+    )
 
 
 def _process_edit(job_id: int, asset_id: int) -> None:
diff --git a/backend/app/downloads/runner.py b/backend/app/downloads/runner.py
index 37c08f73..ac87b6c1 100644
--- a/backend/app/downloads/runner.py
+++ b/backend/app/downloads/runner.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from app import logsink
 from app.config import settings
 from app.db import SessionLocal
 from app.downloads import edit as editmod
+from app.downloads import formats
 from app.models import DownloadJob
 
 log = logs.get_logger(__name__)
@@ -81,14 +82,40 @@ def main() -> None:
     if asset_id is None:
         return
 
+    _run(job_id, asset_id, job_kind, source_kind, source_ref, spec, user_id)
+
+
+def _run(job_id, asset_id, job_kind, source_kind, source_ref, spec, user_id) -> None:
+    """Run the job, and be the last stop before Python's own exception hook.
+
+    What gets past the pipeline is a failure it could not even record (the database refused the
+    write that fails the job). Python's hook would print it to stderr raw — and its context is the
+    download's own failure, whose text is the URL or ffmpeg's stderr naming the file. Here it is
+    one line with the whole chain scrubbed; the non-zero exit then has the worker fail the job
+    (`cause=child_exit`)."""
     # Imported here (not at module top) so the child pays the yt-dlp import cost only when it has
     # real work, and to keep the import graph obvious: runner is a thin entry over the pipeline.
     from app.downloads.pipeline import _download, _process_edit
 
-    if job_kind == "edit":
-        _process_edit(job_id, asset_id)
-    else:
-        _download(job_id, asset_id, source_kind, source_ref, spec, user_id)
+    with formats.hiding(source_ref):
+        try:
+            if job_kind == "edit":
+                _process_edit(job_id, asset_id)
+            else:
+                _download(job_id, asset_id, source_kind, source_ref, spec, user_id)
+        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — whatever it is, it is reported here or raw
+            # noqa TRY400: the stack goes with it scrubbed (`scrubbed_stack`); `exc_info` is raw.
+            log.error(  # noqa: TRY400
+                "the download child for job %s failed",
+                job_id,
+                extra={
+                    **logs.event(
+                        "download.child.failed", job_id=job_id, error_type=type(exc).__name__
+                    ),
+                    **logs.scrubbed_stack(exc, formats.log_safe),
+                },
+            )
+            raise SystemExit(1) from None
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/backend/app/worker.py b/backend/app/worker.py
index 77648159..1aac2d5a 100644
--- a/backend/app/worker.py
+++ b/backend/app/worker.py
@@ -329,10 +329,14 @@ def _report_worker_error(job_id: int, exc: Exception, cause: str, fail: Callable
     already stopped it (a cancel that landed first is not a failure, `_fail_running`).
 
     The line goes out even when failing the job raises (the database is down): as
-    `download.worker.error`, since the job was not failed, and the raise goes on to the caller."""
+    `download.worker.error`, since the job was not failed, and the raise goes on to the caller —
+    without `exc` as its context, which this line has already carried with its stack."""
     failed = False
     try:
         failed = fail()
+    except BaseException as write_error:
+        write_error.__suppress_context__ = True
+        raise
     finally:
         log.error(
             "job %s: worker error (%s)",
@@ -599,7 +603,11 @@ def _worker_loop(idx: int) -> None:
                 # re-raise. Failing the job hit the database, and letting that out would end this
                 # worker thread for good; boot recovery settles a job left `running`.
                 except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001
-                    log.exception("could not fail job %s after its crash", job_id)
+                    log.exception(
+                        "could not fail job %s after its crash",
+                        job_id,
+                        extra=logs.event("download.worker.fail_write_failed", job_id=job_id),
+                    )
 
 
 def main() -> None:
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_download_failure_catalog.py b/backend/tests/test_download_failure_catalog.py
index e56f15bc..ae7341ab 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_download_failure_catalog.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_download_failure_catalog.py
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ def test_the_download_child_knows_the_cookie_went_with_it(db, monkeypatch, tmp_p
     assert (job.error_code, job.error_detail) == ("login_required", "facebook.cookie_rejected")
 
 
-def test_the_failure_line_goes_out_even_when_its_write_fails(db, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
-    """The database is often what failed; the write of the failure then fails too, and the line
-    that says so must not go down with it."""
+def test_a_failure_the_database_would_not_record_is_not_claimed(db, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """The job is still `running`: the runner reports this with the write's error, and the worker
+    fails the job. A `download.job.failed` here as well would be a second line, and a false one."""
     u = _user(db, "fb-dbdown@example.com")
     a, j = _asset_and_job(db, u, sig="dbdown", asset_status="downloading", job_status="running")
     _fail_the_child(monkeypatch, tmp_path, cookie=False)
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def test_the_failure_line_goes_out_even_when_its_write_fails(db, monkeypatch, tm
 
     with pytest.raises(ConnectionError):
         pipeline._download(j.id, a.id, "url", _REEL, {}, u.id)
-    assert said == [j.id]
+    assert said == []
 
 
 def test_a_job_meeting_a_failed_shared_asset_gets_the_same_explanation(db):
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_failure_lines.py b/backend/tests/test_failure_lines.py
index c5332f0f..80b1f6b4 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_failure_lines.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_failure_lines.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ same edit failure twice, a warning per segment request, per settings read).
 
 import json
 import logging
+import re
+import shutil
+import subprocess
 from pathlib import Path
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 
@@ -220,9 +223,9 @@ def test_an_edit_that_ffmpeg_refused_names_no_file_and_carries_no_stack(sink, fi
     assert "exc" not in line
 
 
-def test_an_edit_failure_is_reported_even_when_its_write_fails(sink, monkeypatch):
-    """The database is often what failed; then the write fails too, and the line must not go
-    down with it."""
+def test_an_edit_the_database_would_not_fail_is_not_reported_as_failed(sink, monkeypatch):
+    """The job is still `running`: the runner reports this failure with the write's, and the
+    worker fails the job (`child_exit`). A line here as well would be a second, and a false one."""
 
     class _Down:
         def __enter__(self):
@@ -235,7 +238,7 @@ def test_an_edit_failure_is_reported_even_when_its_write_fails(sink, monkeypatch
     with pytest.raises(ConnectionError):
         pipeline._fail_edit(9, 3, "boom", KeyError("x"))
 
-    assert len(sink.events("edit.job.failed")) == 1
+    assert sink.events("edit.job.failed") == []
 
 
 class _EditDb(_NoDb):
@@ -371,6 +374,31 @@ def test_the_metadata_backfill_names_the_asset_and_not_the_download(sink, monkey
     assert lines and all("dQw4w9WgXcQ" not in json.dumps(o) for o in lines)
 
 
+def test_the_metadata_backfill_takes_out_a_generic_name_whatever_it_holds(sink, monkeypatch):
+    from app.downloads import adapters, backfill
+
+    url = "https://example.org/v/Our%20Trip%3A%20Day%201.mp4"
+
+    class _Refusing:
+        def __init__(self, opts):
+            pass
+
+        def __enter__(self):
+            return self
+
+        def __exit__(self, *exc):
+            return False
+
+        def extract_info(self, target, download):
+            raise yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError("ERROR: [generic] Our Trip: Day 1: Unable to download")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(backfill.yt_dlp, "YoutubeDL", _Refusing)
+    assert backfill._extract_meta(url, adapters.SourceAdapter(), 11) is None
+
+    lines = [o for o in sink.objects() if "meta extract failed" in o["msg"]]
+    assert lines and all("Day 1" not in json.dumps(o) for o in lines)
+
+
 # --- a repeating failure, once ------------------------------------------------------------------
 def test_a_stale_setting_is_reported_once_not_on_every_read(sink, monkeypatch):
     spec = next(s for s in sysconfig.SPECS if s.type == "int")
@@ -446,6 +474,7 @@ def test_a_retried_attempt_names_the_host_and_not_the_video(sink, monkeypatch, t
     assert "dQw4w9WgXcQ" not in json.dumps(line)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(shutil.which("ffmpeg") is None, reason="ffmpeg not available")
 def test_a_failed_poster_or_storyboard_names_no_file(sink, tmp_path):
     """ffmpeg's CalledProcessError quotes its argv, and the source path in it is built from the
     channel and the title."""
@@ -459,7 +488,135 @@ def test_a_failed_poster_or_storyboard_names_no_file(sink, tmp_path):
     assert editmod.ensure_poster(asset, str(tmp_path)) is None
     assert editmod.ensure_storyboard(asset, str(tmp_path)) is None
 
-    lines = [o for o in sink.objects() if "gen skipped" in o["msg"]]
+    lines = [o["msg"] for o in sink.objects() if "gen skipped" in o["msg"]]
+    # The whole message: a long tmp root would push a leaked argv's path past any length cut.
     assert len(lines) == 2
-    assert all("Some_Channel" not in json.dumps(o) for o in lines)
-    assert all("CalledProcessError" in o["msg"] for o in lines)
+    assert all(
+        re.fullmatch(r"\w+ gen skipped for asset 3: CalledProcessError \d+", m) for m in lines
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "err",
+    [
+        subprocess.TimeoutExpired(
+            ["ffmpeg", "-i", "/downloads/Some_Channel/A_Private_Title.mp4"], 30
+        ),
+        FileNotFoundError(2, "No such file", "/downloads/Some_Channel/A_Private_Title.jpg"),
+        subprocess.CalledProcessError(1, ["ffmpeg", "-i", "/downloads/Some_Channel/x.mp4"]),
+    ],
+    ids=lambda e: type(e).__name__,
+)
+def test_an_image_step_failure_is_its_kind_and_nothing_it_quotes(err):
+    from app.downloads import edit as editmod
+
+    code = getattr(err, "returncode", None)
+    assert editmod._step_failure(err) == " ".join(
+        [type(err).__name__, *([str(code)] if code is not None else [])]
+    )
+
+
+def test_a_thumbnail_that_cannot_be_copied_names_no_file(sink, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    from app.downloads import edit as editmod
+
+    src = tmp_path / "thumb.jpg"
+    src.write_bytes(b"\xff\xd8\xff rest")
+
+    def refuse(a, b):
+        raise PermissionError(
+            13, "Permission denied", "/downloads/Some_Channel/A_Private_Title.jpg"
+        )
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(editmod.shutil, "copyfile", refuse)
+    assert editmod.thumbnail_to_jpg(src, tmp_path / "out.jpg") is None
+
+    (line,) = [o for o in sink.objects() if "thumbnail copy failed" in o["msg"]]
+    assert "Some_Channel" not in json.dumps(line)
+
+
+# --- the child's last stop ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def test_a_failure_the_child_cannot_record_is_one_scrubbed_line_and_a_non_zero_exit(
+    sink, monkeypatch
+):
+    """The pipeline's failure write was refused. Python's own hook would print the chain raw —
+    and its context is the download's failure, the URL in it. The worker fails the job on the
+    exit code (`child_exit`), so this line does not claim the job failed."""
+    from app.downloads import runner
+
+    url = "https://example.org/v/Our%20Trip%3A%20Day%201.mp4"
+    text = f"ERROR: [generic] Our Trip: Day 1: Unable to download webpage ({url})"
+
+    def download(*a):
+        try:
+            raise yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError(text)
+        except yt_dlp.utils.DownloadError:
+            raise ConnectionError("the database went away")  # noqa: B904
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(pipeline, "_download", download)
+    with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exited:
+        runner._run(5, 7, "download", "url", url, {}, 1)
+
+    assert exited.value.code == 1
+    (line,) = [o for o in sink.objects() if o["level"] in ("WARNING", "ERROR")]
+    assert line["event"] == "download.child.failed"
+    assert "Unable to download webpage" in line["exc"]
+    # "Day 1" too: the fallback pattern alone stops at the first `: ` and leaves it.
+    assert "Trip" not in json.dumps(line) and "Day 1" not in json.dumps(line)
+
+
+def test_a_crash_the_database_will_not_record_carries_its_stack_once(monkeypatch, sink):
+    claims = iter([42])
+
+    def claim():
+        job = next(claims, None)
+        if job is None:
+            worker._stop.set()
+        return job
+
+    def crash(job_id):
+        raise RuntimeError("the one crash")
+
+    def db_down(*a, **k):
+        raise ConnectionError("the database went away")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_claim_job", claim)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_process_job", crash)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_fail_running", db_down)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker.settings, "download_poll_seconds", 0)
+    worker._stop.clear()
+    try:
+        worker._worker_loop(0)
+    finally:
+        worker._stop.clear()
+
+    stacks = [o["exc"] for o in sink.objects() if "exc" in o]
+    assert sum("the one crash" in s for s in stacks) == 1
+    (write,) = sink.events("download.worker.fail_write_failed")
+    assert "the database went away" in write["exc"]
+
+
+def test_a_watchdog_error_on_a_job_it_failed_is_that_jobs_failure_line(
+    sink, finalized, monkeypatch
+):
+    """Through the real `_fail_after_kill` → `_fail_running`: the verdict it returns picks the
+    event, so a lost `return` would log every such failure as a mere worker error."""
+
+    class _Alive:
+        pid = 4242
+        returncode = None
+
+        def wait(self, timeout=None):
+            raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired("child", timeout or 0)
+
+    def broken(job_id):
+        raise KeyError("a watchdog bug")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_spawn_download_child", lambda job_id: _Alive())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_job_liveness", broken)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(worker, "_stop_and_free", lambda *a: None)
+
+    worker._run_supervised(42, 7)
+
+    (line,) = [o for o in sink.objects() if o["level"] in ("WARNING", "ERROR")]
+    assert (line["event"], line["attrs"]["cause"]) == ("download.job.failed", "supervisor_error")
+    assert "a watchdog bug" in line["exc"]
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_logs.py b/backend/tests/test_logs.py
index ae8b883e..556db984 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_logs.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_logs.py
@@ -318,3 +318,68 @@ def test_a_failing_request_is_logged_by_status_and_an_unhandled_error_is_logged_
     assert payload["level"] == "ERROR"
     assert payload["event"] == "http.request"
     assert "RuntimeError" in payload["exc"]
+
+
+# --- a stack whose messages are data (`logs.scrubbed_stack`) -----------------------------------
+def _upper(exc: BaseException) -> str:
+    return str(exc).upper()
+
+
+def _raised(make):
+    try:
+        make()
+    except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — whatever the case raised is the case
+        return exc
+    raise AssertionError("the case did not raise")
+
+
+def test_a_raise_from_is_printed_as_its_direct_cause():
+    def make():
+        try:
+            raise KeyError("inner")
+        except KeyError as inner:
+            raise ValueError("outer") from inner
+
+    stack = logs.scrubbed_stack(_raised(make), _upper)["scrubbed_stack"]
+    assert "The above exception was the direct cause" in stack
+    assert "During handling" not in stack
+    assert "'INNER'" in stack and "OUTER" in stack
+
+
+def test_a_raise_from_none_hides_the_link_its_author_hid():
+    def make():
+        try:
+            raise KeyError("hidden")
+        except KeyError:
+            raise ValueError("shown") from None
+
+    stack = logs.scrubbed_stack(_raised(make), _upper)["scrubbed_stack"]
+    assert "HIDDEN" not in stack and "SHOWN" in stack
+
+
+def test_a_chain_that_loops_back_ends():
+    a, b = ValueError("a"), ValueError("b")
+    a.__context__, b.__context__ = b, a
+    assert "A" in logs.scrubbed_stack(a, _upper)["scrubbed_stack"]
+
+
+def test_a_message_that_cannot_be_rendered_does_not_fail_the_report():
+    def refuse(exc):
+        raise RuntimeError("no")
+
+    assert (
+        logs.scrubbed_stack(ValueError("x"), refuse)["scrubbed_stack"]
+        == "ValueError: <unprintable>"
+    )
+
+
+def test_the_text_format_carries_the_scrubbed_stack_too():
+    title = "a private title"  # a variable: a frame prints its source line, which is code
+    exc = ValueError(title)
+    record = logging.LogRecord("siftlode.x", logging.WARNING, __file__, 1, "failed", None, None)
+    for key, value in logs.scrubbed_stack(exc, lambda e: "…").items():
+        setattr(record, key, value)
+
+    line = logs.TextFormatter().format(record)
+    assert "ValueError: …" in line and "private" not in line
+    assert "scrubbed_stack" not in line  # the stack, not an attribute
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_ytdlp_logging.py b/backend/tests/test_ytdlp_logging.py
index afee4519..02950256 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_ytdlp_logging.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_ytdlp_logging.py
@@ -134,9 +134,15 @@ def test_the_source_url_does_not_travel_with_the_explanation(sink):
             "hu subtitles not available for …",
             "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
         ),
+        # `watch?v=…&list=…` under `noplaylist` (`_yes_playlist`), and the multifeed shape.
         (
-            "[youtube:tab] Downloading just video dQw4w9WgXcQ because of --no-playlist",
-            "[youtube:tab] Downloading just video … because of --no-playlist",
+            "[youtube:tab] Downloading just the video dQw4w9WgXcQ because of --no-playlist",
+            "[youtube:tab] Downloading just the video … because of --no-playlist",
+            "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
+        ),
+        (
+            "[youtube] Downloading just video dQw4w9WgXcQ because of --no-playlist",
+            "[youtube] Downloading just video … because of --no-playlist",
             "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
         ),
         # `Destination` is yt-dlp's word, not an id; the path after it is built from the title.
@@ -155,6 +161,31 @@ def test_what_names_the_download_comes_out_of_real_ytdlp_shapes(sink, line, kept
     assert gone not in json.dumps(obj)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("url", "name"),
+    [
+        ("https://example.org/v/Wedding%20%5B2024%5D.mp4", "Wedding [2024]"),
+        ("https://example.org/v/Our%20Trip%3A%20Day%201.mp4", "Our Trip: Day 1"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_the_jobs_own_generic_name_is_taken_out_whatever_it_holds(url, name):
+    """Brackets and `: ` bound no pattern; the job knows its URL, so the exact name goes."""
+    line = f"ERROR: [generic] {name}: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found"
+
+    assert formats.generic_id(url) == name
+    with formats.hiding(url):
+        assert formats.log_safe(line) == (
+            "ERROR: [generic] …: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found"
+        )
+
+
+def test_the_generic_name_is_yt_dlps_own():
+    from yt_dlp.extractor.common import InfoExtractor
+
+    for url in ("https://x.org/a/My%20Holiday.mp4", "https://x.org/a/clip/", "https://x.org/b"):
+        assert formats.generic_id(url) == InfoExtractor._generic_id(url)
+
+
 def test_a_download_error_is_scrubbed_the_same_way_wherever_it_is_logged():
     """yt-dlp raises the text it has just logged, and the pipeline logs the exception again one
     line later (`download.job.failed`). The same scrub, or that line puts the URL back."""