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      If you get a user agent switcher and change your user agent for youtube to chrome then that slowing down goes away.

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    I’ve started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.

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      Me too. I’m up to 3TB locally. Had to do that slowly though. Hit some temp bans a few times.

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      If Google really wants to, they can crack down on yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they’re likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but…

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        My ip was blocked a LONG time ago by google for using yt-dlp. Works with VPN but nothing else. Fun times. I think I only pulled a couple of videos off for archival services. On my own channel non-the-less.

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          You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

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            Ok cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.

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        It will happen eventually. All they need to do is start new/rotating keys on wildvine and put the ads at random times right in the stream, then disable fast forward if you use it to skip ads. It’ll be a UX hit, so it’ll need to be worth it to them.

        In the end, they can’t stop us from HDMI capturing and using comskip to detect / remove but there are a million ways to play tag between where we are now and that which don’t require people posting videos to pirate bay :)

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            I break HDCP right now. Those keys have been leaked for AGES. $10 amazon HDMI copy in between your videocard and the capture.

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              They aren’t fool proof, and relatively easy to detect from the source.

              Source: high end AV tech for like half a decade

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              strip out the HDCP

              Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

              But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

              We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

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          Right. At the end of the bullshit, the content still plays to completion if the user hits play. We can script and Ai and remove ads all day long after a program snags the feed.

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            Imagine adblock re-rencoding software that picks mp4s clean based on repeated content(ads). The user could select each ad as they happen, mark them as such and let it identify them from there. Imagine sharable or federated caches of these ad records between users.

            Someone who can code, please, imagine it.

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              What they should be imagining instead is a better video sharing platform. There are alternatives already…

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        Virtual desktop program that watches videos and uses sponsorblock and adblock after the fact to pick it clean and re-encode it.

        I’m that level of anal

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          I’m not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won’t run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

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      This is the way.

      When YouTube wanted to throw me some entertainment and a couple ads, very conveniently, I was down for that.

      Now that it’s an all out technology knowledge battle - well, I’m quite good at that.

      So I spend the time I would have laughed at their ad instead working around their bullshit.

      I haven’t seen an ad in years, but I still enjoy the same content. 🤷‍♀️

      To me, it seems like they’re working really hard, just to fail to serve me ads.

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        I would but my issue with that is that SponsorBlock doesn’t work on downloaded videos.

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            I use SponsorBlock for more than just skipping sponsored segments. It’s also useful for skipping intros, “like and subscribe” messages, and other general annoyances in most YouTube videos. Once you get used to it, you can’t go without.

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      I’ve been doing this with band love videos and storing them on a hard drive. One I love got taken down and almost lost a while back and it’s made me paranoid ha

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    Ok so im not crazy. I was wondering why videos kept buffering every minute this past week.

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    ublockorigin etc… 5 second unnecessary delay, very annoying . that’s my experience

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    uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:

    ||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com

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      Like it or not, YouTube still has a fuckton of good, informative tutorials and advice on how to fix things or make things made by individuals with a phone camera and no script, who make them not for money but for the pride in sharing their knowledge. I shared some fix it videos for my van and a very obscure phone, and consumed a lot of fix it videos for washing machines, motorbikes and furniture.

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        This. YouTube is extremely helpful for anyone who can’t afford to take their stuff to a repair service or hire someone to fix something at their home. Just a few months ago, I thought my washer was done for, but it turned out to be a super simple fix that no website mentioned except for a super obscure YouTube video with only a couple hundred views. Saved me hundreds of dollars. There’s countless other anecdotes like that over the years.

        This is what sucks so much about Google’s monopoly. I truly wish a cooperative of governments and/or academia created a publicly funded alternative as well as hosting an archive of YouTube on it. It would of course need to be administered by a non-partisan committee made up of representatives from multiple countries that had numerous safeguards against governmental political censorship. Hoping for a grassroots alternative is a lost cause, as the hosting and administrative expenses are just way too cost prohibitive, so publicly funded is the only solution I can see as being plausible

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    That’s a relief. I’ve been dreading the day when they introduce server-side adsm but it seems we’re not there yet 😅 I’m not sure what they think they’ll accomplish with this when it’s A LOT less painful than turning off your adblocker and dealing with the ads, though. Maybe they’re just trying random things to see what works.

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    might be brain damaged but haven’t noticed a slowdown or seen any ads in occasional use.

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    Ive been commenting on creators videos asking them to upload elsewhere as well. I doubt it will work, but we could try

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    Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It’s an awful experience. But they’ll leave my browser before my adblocker does.

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      100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.

      My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.

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        This is also a good beginner way to learn about self hosting in docker.

        Freetube can make a great backup for when google inevitably breaks something.

        And for thise videos you really cant miss there is always yt-dlp scripted to download a channels latests video on a schedule straight to jellyfin of course.

        I have not visited the youtube website in more then a year.

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        It’s not perfect, but I use grayjay. They have an android app and a desktop client, and are usually pretty quick to make updates that will sidestep Google’s anti-adblocking measures (within 1-2 days.) Again, not perfect, but I don’t mind a slightly worse experience to avoid having to see an ad. Plus it has sponsor block support built right in

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      The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

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      Same. When I opened the Stats for Nerds pop-up, I noticed that I was being throttled to 1500kbps. Anything above 720p was unplayable this week.

      But apparently the Ublock Origin devs yet again figured out another workaround, because streaming speeds are back to normal for me as of yesterday.