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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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jjulius ◴[15 Mar 25 21:21 UTC] No.43375226[source]▶
I'd say it's less people's fault and more Google's for driving people to want something like it.
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Gigachad ◴[15 Mar 25 21:37 UTC] No.43375322[source]▶
Yes, people prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it. That's not a very interesting insight.
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freehorse ◴[15 Mar 25 21:45 UTC] No.43375366[source]▶
There is no way to pay google to get features like these or like what yt-dlp offers. If there was I would have gladly paid.
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Arainach ◴[15 Mar 25 22:16 UTC] No.43375495[source]▶
You can pay for YouTube Premium and get no ads.
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moron4hire ◴[15 Mar 25 22:25 UTC] No.43375556[source]▶
That's not true, there are still lots of ads that you'll have to sit through. They're just not out there by Google, they're out their by the video creator.

Which, I get it, YouTube isn't paying them enough and they gotta eat. So, it kind of feels like YouTube letting them post their own ads is an intentional choice on YouTube's part to not give me the service I'm paying for.

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Arainach ◴[16 Mar 25 05:24 UTC] No.43377074[source]▶
This is a weird take. What is an "ad", and how would you expect any company to remove in-video "ads" without rampant accusations of censorship?

If a channel posts a review of a piece of hardware that was sent to them for free by the manufacturer is the entire video an ad?

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1. latexr ◴[16 Mar 25 14:01 UTC] No.43379149[source]▶
> What is an "ad"

Considering YouTubers have to disclose paid promotions, this isn’t nearly as grey as your question suggests.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/154235