They were serving videos with ads spliced in, basically DAI in podcasting industry. I’m not sure how that experiment went, but if that’s how they’d serve the videos, downloaders will have ads embedded as well.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoYt-dlp download script + text file with fav channel urls + jellyfin.
No bullshit, saves bandwidth.
Also look into invidious.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yt-dlp supports sponsorblock, i am not worried.
I also dont even need tools for this as my usual style of watching is with my fingers on the arrow keys to skip back and forth
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 months ago
I actually don’t know if/how the ad block people worked around it or if YouTube pulled back. The problem with DAI on podcast and in stream ads is that the ads aren’t always 1:05~1:35, the ad could be longer or shorter, then the next ad won’t necessarily start at the same time, and most definitely won’t end at the same time. So sponsor block won’t know precisely where the ads are, thereby making it much harder for a crowd sourced solution to accurately skip embedded ads. Hopefully they figured out a way, but as mentioned earlier, I don’t know what happened to that experiment.
acetanilide@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Put it on a VHS, then use one of those VCRs that removes the ads for you.
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
And peertube, some content creators also post there, e.g., The Linux Experiment.