Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is the way.

  When YouTube wanted to throw me some entertainment and a couple ads, very conveniently, I was down for that.

  Now that it’s an all out technology knowledge battle - well, I’m quite good at that.

  So I spend the time I would have laughed at their ad instead working around their bullshit.

  I haven’t seen an ad in years, but I still enjoy the same content. 🤷‍♀️

  To me, it seems like they’re working really hard, just to fail to serve me ads.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would but my issue with that is that SponsorBlock doesn’t work on downloaded videos.

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Skytube has an option for clipping mid-video ads out of downloaded videos, if that helps.

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      • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I use SponsorBlock for more than just skipping sponsored segments. It’s also useful for skipping intros, “like and subscribe” messages, and other general annoyances in most YouTube videos. Once you get used to it, you can’t go without.

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• B_DL@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.

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  • SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m a filthy Windows user that’s too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.

    > Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>
    

    Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.

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    • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      FYI, ampersand is the “&” symbol. Not sure if your post is missing them or if you meant the angle brackets. Not trying to be pedantic, just trying to be helpful.

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  • OwlPaste@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself.

    Use docker compose for quick deployment

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• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  DVRs are back in 2025. Who would have thought?

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• gruhuken@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been doing this with band love videos and storing them on a hard drive. One I love for taken down and almost lost a whole back and it’s made me paranoid ha

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