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319 points modmodmod | 5 comments | 15 Mar 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.875s | source
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tracerbulletx ◴[15 Mar 25 20:30 UTC] No.43374959[source]▶
I kind of wish people would stop making yt-dlp more accessible and increasing Google's desire to shut it down.
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1. yimby2001 ◴[15 Mar 25 21:13 UTC] No.43375203[source]▶
do you feel the same about ad blockers?
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2. freehorse ◴[15 Mar 25 21:20 UTC] No.43375224[source]▶
Ad blockers are basically about blocking ads. Yt-dlp has also uses whose main purpose is not about blocking ads.
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4. ivoputzer ◴[15 Mar 25 21:33 UTC] No.43375299[source]▶
it's a nice side-effect though.
5. hsbauauvhabzb ◴[15 Mar 25 23:30 UTC] No.43375861[source]▶
In some reguards I would say it is. Yt-dlp terminates my need for an adblocker for the lifetime of the videos I download, something chrome no longer does on a per-view basis and these days not as easily. It also blocks the YouTube algorithm suggestions, which in my eyes are an advertisement too.