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

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers
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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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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.