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?

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    4 months ago

    Peertube can mirror a YouTube channel automatically, but it will probably be hard to find an instance that allows it, unless it’s your own channel.

    Otherwise, you can setup peertube yourself and mirror away ;)

  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    One thing this recent ad injection debacle has me worried about is that I’ll open an archived download of a YouTube video and find ads in my files. I have hesitated to continue my personal archival project until I could be 100% sure my downloads are clean, because I can’t go through everything to make sure they didn’t inject a 5 second ad somewhere.

    • 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.