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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by yimby2001 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:13PM (#43375203)
do you feel the same about ad blockers?
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by freehorse on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:20PM (#43375224)
Ad blockers are basically about blocking ads. Yt-dlp has also uses whose main purpose is not about blocking ads.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by hsbauauvhabzb on Saturday March 15, 2025 @07:30PM (#43375861)
In some reguards I would say it is. Yt-dlp terminates my need for an adblocker for the lifetime of the videos I download, something chrome no longer does on a per-view basis and these days not as easily. It also blocks the YouTube algorithm suggestions, which in my eyes are an advertisement too.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by ivoputzer on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:33PM (#43375299)
it's a nice side-effect though.
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