I recently got my (via VPN) YouTube subscription cancelled and now I am wondering, if YouTube videos are findable in the usenet or using torrent tracker.

Does anyone already have experience with this? I block ads, but it seems not like a sustainable solution.

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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      14 days ago

      OK, yt-dlp is awesome. It does things even beyond YouTube exceptionally well. The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with the space for videos. If you don’t have a spare 5 tb , place the YouTube url into a Bing search - no ads, no login

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        The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with space for videos

        Some media players allows for streaming directly using yt-dlp, e.g.;

        mpv <youtube url>

        Will use yt-dlp if installed