Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers
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YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

    • 𝐘Ⓞz҉English
      4•2 years ago

      What’s this? How to use it? Can someone please ELI5 ?

        • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          video player in linux

          Not just linux, Android and Windows too. Even embeded devices, MPV basically supports everything

        • @[email protected]English
          4•2 years ago

          mpv video player with mpv-sponsorblock script using youtube-dl/yt-dlp hooks, run from command line / launcher.

          Yes, there’s a sponsorblock plugin for VLC too.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        mpv uses that (or youtube-dl) in background. I think yt-dlp still needs a config change?

        • @[email protected]English
          4•2 years ago

          Yt-dlp is the successor for YouTube-dl I believe you can have it function as a drop-in replacement if want to.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      For some reason I’m getting:

      Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q="  
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred 
Failed to recognize file format.

      Seems weird.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          That was correct, but yt-dlp is disabled on Debian and Ubuntu (apt), so I had to go to the Debian archives and install manually.