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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @12:36AM (#43376958)
> prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it

This is how you describe a glorified VCR?

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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Gigachad on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:41PM (#43382100)
What is describing is a platform that reimplements the YouTube frontend with the primary purpose being not having ads without paying.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:25PM (#43383587)
It does a bunch of useful things and that's one of them.

Also the videos are free either way. It's true that people are avoiding paying for an ad removing feature, but installing your own software to get features is pretty reasonable.

And ad removal is well established as a feature people use and it being fine that they do so.

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