YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will show you ads

Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by pwg on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:47AM (#27946800)

Solution: youtube-dl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube-dl)

Download the videos, and the only ads/interruptions you get will be the ones the creators directly recorded in the videos.

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by DavideNL on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:28AM (#27947445)

Sponsorblock is even better: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

Unfortunately, videos downloaded with youtube-dl still have all the embedded marketing…

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by DavideNL on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:49PM (#27965265)

Interesting, it seems there’s a youtube-dl fork with Sponsorblock integration: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sponskrub-sponsorblock-opti...

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a build for the Raspberry Pi by the way…

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by suby on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:24AM (#27946931)

Just use ublock origin. You can continue using the youtube site as normal, but now without the ads.

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by jhclouse on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:34AM (#27946961)

That doesn’t work on the mobile app though, does it?

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by JoshTriplett on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:47AM (#27946998)

Use m.youtube.com in Firefox, which lets you use uBlock Origin or ABP. Works great for just about everything, except that it doesn't support casting to a Chromecast (unless you cast your whole screen).

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Re:YouTube Will Bully you into subscription and even so will... by HKH2 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:46AM (#27946997)

Out of the box, Brave is pretty good at blocking ads.

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