I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it's just that YouTube's website is shite.

Nebula seems like it has the same types of videos I like to watch.

I mean, Nebula is commercial service and I assume that they'd profile, the same as YouTube. Like, if you're okay with that, you can get YouTube Premium.

Of course, I can get into PeerTube as well.

I'm still skeptical that this is going to scale sufficiently either in bandwidth or in amount of content.

https://peertube.fediverse.observer/ for people who want to try it, though.

I mean sure I guess but I can just like download them for later?

If Google really wants to, they can crack down on yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they're likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but...

My ip was blocked a LONG time ago by google for using yt-dlp. Works with VPN but nothing else. Fun times. I think I only pulled a couple of videos off for archival services. On my own channel non-the-less.

I saw something that might be this happening last week where every video took an extra 20 seconds to load and presented a popup that took you to the support page where the first thing listed to troubleshoot your problem was disabling ad blockers, but this week the videos are perfect and load normally; but the rest of the page is absolutely fucked. Like the "playables" section last night was tripping balls and looked like a slot machine as the entries randomly changed around at light speeds. The comments, related videos section on the right, description, etc all just refuse to load now on Firefox for me.

Considering these issues for me have only happened recently, and coincidentally around the same time an issue with Google services took a shitton of the entire Internet down for almost a whole day, I suspect it's not about blocking ad blockers so much as it is Google just fucking sucks at implementing any changes across the board of their products.

Yeah Peertube is awesome. It already scales very well with its tech. Its been growing too. I think its good to have multiple alternatives. Its a good free option.

Ultimately the platform is the last important part of watching a video. If the creators can get more $$/activity going somewhere else they will. It happened to Vimeo, it will happen to Youtube.

I'm sure they could. Other methods will crop up. All else fails, I ditch YT altogether.

I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.

100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.

My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.

Ublock origin (if your using it) "fixed" the issue shortly after. Im convinced someone at google works on adblock lol. Probably not true but the timing was really fast.

You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

Books are where it's at!

Ok cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.

I'm a filthy Windows user that's too lazy to migrate my main PC to Fedora.

> Path\to\yt-dlp.exe -P <target directory> <URL>

Multiple URLs can be separated by spaces. Put any URLs with ampersands in quotes or remove the ampersand and following arguments.

You can find a list of all the arguments on the yt-dlp github page

I haven't noticed on Tubular.

It will happen eventually. All they need to do is start new/rotating keys on wildvine and put the ads at random times right in the stream, then disable fast forward if you use it to skip ads. It'll be a UX hit, so it'll need to be worth it to them.

In the end, they can't stop us from HDMI capturing and using comskip to detect / remove but there are a million ways to play tag between where we are now and that which don't require people posting videos to pirate bay

Fair enough.

Like it or not, YouTube still has a fuckton of good, informative tutorials and advice on how to fix things or make things made by individuals with a phone camera and no script, who make them not for money but for the pride in sharing their knowledge. I shared some fix it videos for my van and a very obscure phone, and consumed a lot of fix it videos for washing machines, motorbikes and furniture.