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Talos@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Talos@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
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    Just use newpipe. It’s youtube without the ads. Doesn’t have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.

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      Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.

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        It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.

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            More for fedi :)

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