VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming

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Slightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”

Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities.

The last time I tried, VLC could already do that.

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Very generous of you to assume that adding native support for advertising is a move to protect users from advertising...

You can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC...

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