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 Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers

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.

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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$ mpv "youtube-url" best youtube adblocker.
- Or (If you have the storage), yt-dlp.
  
  mpv uses that (or youtube-dl) in background. I think yt-dlp still needs a config change?
  
  Yt-dlp is the successor for YouTube-dl I believe you can have it function as a drop-in replacement if want to.
- What's this? How to use it? Can someone please ELI5 ?
- What's this?
  
  video player in linux. I think VLC can also do that
  
  video player in linux
  
  Not just linux, Android and Windows too. Even embeded devices, MPV basically supports everything
  
  mpv video player with mpv-sponsorblock script using youtube-dl/yt-dlp hooks, run from command line / launcher.
  
  Yes, there's a sponsorblock plugin for VLC too.
- 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.
  
  Probably need to update. With plain yt-dlp you just run "yt-dlp -U"
  
  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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