YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
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Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i'm too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.

Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary ("-f 22") if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.

You can also put "alias y=yt-dlp" in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to "y". Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.

Or do the same with "mpv" instead of "yt-dlp" to watch the video stream directly without downloading.

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