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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

$ mpv "youtube-url" best youtube adblocker.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

For some reason I'm getting:

Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q="  
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred 
Failed to recognize file format.

Seems weird.

[-] gartheom@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Probably need to update. With plain yt-dlp you just run "yt-dlp -U"

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That was correct, but yt-dlp is disabled on Debian and Ubuntu (apt), so I had to go to the Debian archives and install manually.

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