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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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nadermx ◴[16 Mar 25 01:22 UTC] No.43376303[source]▶
Not sure it was ever youtubes desire to shut it down. Why would they, as there are a multitude of reasons why someone would want a video off a platform. It was the RIAA's, since there the ones who sent the takedown.
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thomassmith65 ◴[16 Mar 25 02:01 UTC] No.43376456[source]▶
This year AlphaGoogle has an initiative to kill ad-blockers. To that end, Youtube now aborts playback after 60 seconds if it cannot contact its ad server to play commercials.

It's clear where this is heading:

1) Youtube will go after software like yt-dlp to ensure only AlphaGoogle-sanctioned players can play its videos

2) Youtube will encode commercials directly into the videos it streams

Both will come to pass. It's not 'if' but 'when'

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1. CuriouslyC ◴[16 Mar 25 15:00 UTC] No.43379583[source]▶
And we'll have middleware that detects and splices out commercials based on frame fingerprints not long after. People hate ads.

It'll definitely trouble the non-technical set though.

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2. thomassmith65 ◴[17 Mar 25 01:47 UTC] No.43384414[source]▶
I look forward to the day (if it ever comes) that on-device AI is powerful enough to identify commercials in podcasts and splice them out.