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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by snapplebobapple on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:00PM (#37885052)
This is what i did when i got the "we are going to start blocking playback ...." Message and it worked great. Moral of the story is track content creators you like with rss and you dont need to be logged in.
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by ajsnigrutin on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:03PM (#37885073)
I was planning to code this with yt-dlp, to just download the videos and never open the webside again....

I just have to figure out how to implement sponsor-block, to remove the "this video is sponsored by shadow raid vpn" messages... probably can be done with ffmpeg :)

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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by garblegarble on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:19PM (#37885170)
Good news! yt-dlp already has sponsorblock built-in :-) Have a look in the --help text output for the "sponsorblock-remove" arg.
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by ajsnigrutin on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:36PM (#37885304)
Just saw the other comment! Thank you!
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by Nullabillity on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:19PM (#37885171) 

    yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove default
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by ajsnigrutin on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:36PM (#37885305)
wow... thank you!
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by mainpassathome on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:17PM (#37885162)
either use and nvidous instance that had sponsorblock(?) or use mpv with the sponsorblock script in your program
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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by paulmd on Saturday October 14, 2023 @07:31PM (#37885274)
just fyi, but this already exists via platforms like invidious, which is like a self-hosted youtube proxy that you interact with, and it dumps files to disk/etc. there are some other similar things already too.

not that you shouldn't use yt-dlp, because it's great!

and yes, as others mention - you can have yt-dlp use sponsorblock to cut out the ad sections too.

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Re:Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoy... by vikramkr on Saturday October 14, 2023 @08:24PM (#37885599)
At the point where you're removing sponsor messages within a downloaded copy - of hope you're also sponsoring on patron or buying merch or something. There's a point where there needs to be some sort of revenue source to incentivize further content creation
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