YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by tshaddox on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:01AM (#44335627)

Yes, it’s mostly just the ads. There are some nice-to-haves like video downloads and background audio on the iOS app. I almost never use search, recommendations, or shorts, but I’m sure you’re right to criticize those features.

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by Eavolution on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:10AM (#44335954)

Can you download the videos to mp4 or is it some proprietary DRM thing that only plays on YouTube? If not that just sounds like a worse version of yt-dlp

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by stiray on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:20AM (#44336000)

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by Y_Y on Saturday June 21, 2025 @06:34AM (#44336358)

I've stopped recommending this (except for in-person to friends) because it's so valuable, and I'm seriously worried about it getting stomped by YouTube.

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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by tshaddox on Monday June 23, 2025 @04:13PM (#44359589)

Definitely the latter. On the iOS app you choose videos to download, and I believe they only work for 30 days without Internet access. I use yt-dlp for videos I want to archive, but I use the YouTube app downloads for one-off stuff like loading up my iPad before a flight.

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