YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
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Good, fuck those greedy bastards. yt-dlp + mpv with sponsorblock FTW, bonus points for stopping using a YouTube account altogether and using RSS feeds for your subscriptions instead.
33 2 ReplyBro... How to setup RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions...
8 1 ReplyJust replace CHANNEL_ID with the ID of the channel you want to get the RSS feed from (to my knowledge it's only limited to the last 15 items) : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
Or using curl and sed : curl -s youtube_channel_url | sed -n 's/.*title="RSS"\s+href="([^"]+).*/\1/p'
11 0 ReplyHere is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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mpv with sponsorblock
How?
2 0 ReplyLook under Sponsorblock Options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
In your mpv.conf you can just add ytdl-raw-options sponsorblock remove all
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Don't watch it. I mean they have to make money. I block ads I don't care and I'm not making up bs to justify it. I don't cause I want to and I can.
1 0 ReplyI'm more than happy to support my favourite content creators by other means, be it simple donation or merch. I will never subject myself to stupid ads, no matter the reason.
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