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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

$ mpv "youtube-url" best youtube adblocker.

[-] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Or (If you have the storage), yt-dlp.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

mpv uses that (or youtube-dl) in background. I think yt-dlp still needs a config change?

[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 11 months ago

Yt-dlp is the successor for YouTube-dl I believe you can have it function as a drop-in replacement if want to.

[-] Yoz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

What's this? How to use it? Can someone please ELI5 ?

[-] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

What's this?

[-] 65gmexl3@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

video player in linux. I think VLC can also do that

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

video player in linux

Not just linux, Android and Windows too. Even embeded devices, MPV basically supports everything

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

mpv video player with mpv-sponsorblock script using youtube-dl/yt-dlp hooks, run from command line / launcher.

Yes, there's a sponsorblock plugin for VLC too.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

For some reason I'm getting:

Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q="  
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred 
Failed to recognize file format.

Seems weird.

[-] gartheom@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Probably need to update. With plain yt-dlp you just run "yt-dlp -U"

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That was correct, but yt-dlp is disabled on Debian and Ubuntu (apt), so I had to go to the Debian archives and install manually.

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