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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Good, fuck those greedy bastards. yt-dlp + mpv with sponsorblock FTW, bonus points for stopping using a YouTube account altogether and using RSS feeds for your subscriptions instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bro... How to setup RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just replace CHANNEL_ID with the ID of the channel you want to get the RSS feed from (to my knowledge it's only limited to the last 15 items) : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

Or using curl and sed : curl -s youtube_channel_url | sed -n 's/.*title="RSS"\s+href="([^"]+).*/\1/p'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mpv with sponsorblock

How?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Look under Sponsorblock Options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

In your mpv.conf you can just add ytdl-raw-options sponsorblock remove all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't watch it. I mean they have to make money. I block ads I don't care and I'm not making up bs to justify it. I don't cause I want to and I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm more than happy to support my favourite content creators by other means, be it simple donation or merch. I will never subject myself to stupid ads, no matter the reason.