YouTube is cracking down Adblocker and they may never work in a year or so.

I don't watch YouTube that much and most of the time I watch the same thing. So I am thinking of mirroring the videos I watch to other platforms. But I don't know which. I was just thinking of ok.ru. I don't know if they respond to DMCA requests.

Did anyone do something similar?

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I guess if you get the length with yt-dlp, and then compare with the downloaded file, and the length is within a one second tolerance, it should be fine. At least I would think the length that yt-dlp extracts would not include the baked in ad, but of course youtube could make it so.

    Btw I haven't heard about this thing since it first came out. Is it really happening?

    • Sprokes@jlai.lu
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      4 months ago

      Yes it happening but it is in the experiment phase so few users are seeing that.