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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by savoytruffle on Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:43AM (#17462756)
But surely they arrive as separate files, and not interspersed in the main video. So it's implausible they'd ever be watched.
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Re:Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos by skinnymuch on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:20AM (#17463430)
Yes they would most likely arrive as separate files. Though YouTube-dl could force their main codebase to merge the videos. Regardless from looking around it doesn’t look like ads are downloaded.
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