I'm running ZorinOS on an SSD.

damn, your description reminded me of my experience with laptops running off a 5k rpm hdd using windows 8. sorry for assuming.

I had to turn off privacy badger and ublock for it to not be slow. It's stupid I'm paying for the service to be ad free it should be ad free without complaints.

I break HDCP right now. Those keys have been leaked for AGES. $10 amazon HDMI copy in between your videocard and the capture.

yeah I had some blender visuals I made that only look good high quality because of the detail and it looks sick as my desktop wallpaper with hidamsri but horrible and blurry viewing it on youtube at the highest quality

strip out the HDCP

Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn't kept up with what was actually around.

But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you'll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

We'll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven't made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

Can confirm.

Okay, I am trying to add it. Just copy your YouTube stuff -> go to myFilters -> paste?

I'm finding I'm using youtube less and less that I can't actually remember the last time I used it for anything. Youtube has so much crap now.

Because of their monetisation scheme for content creators, it was profitable for creators to drag 15 mins of information out to one hour, and then to include shock faces as thumbs to get more clicks, and then to get more viewers just to watch a bit of the video as viewership dwindles into just mindlessly watching suggestions.

I feel sorry for those creators who have gone balls deep with youtube content and who have no "plan b".

Ahh seeing images load line-by-line and you get excited as you can actually start to tell what the image is!

Also if you just want the audio to listen to (I like to do this with TTRPGs) you can do:

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio

Also works great in a pinch for getting sounds and music for FoundryVTT.

Skytube has an option for clipping mid-video ads out of downloaded videos, if that helps.

Pass on what? Using YouTube at all?

That’s really interesting! Would you pay $8 for a no ads subscription?

I use SponsorBlock for more than just skipping sponsored segments. It's also useful for skipping intros, "like and subscribe" messages, and other general annoyances in most YouTube videos. Once you get used to it, you can't go without.

Daniel Suelo for CEO of YouTube!

I didn’t know if I’m crazy or of YouTube is genuinely slow for me (with adblocker)

Turns out I was not crazy

I'm pretty sure that it defaults to best quality.

goes looking at man page

   By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't  pass  any  options.   This  is  generally
   equivalent to using -f bestvideo*+bestaudio/best.  However, if multiple audiostreams is enabled (--audio-multistreams),
   the  default  format changes to -f bestvideo+bestaudio/best.  Similarly, if ffmpeg is unavailable, or if you use yt-dlp
   to stream to stdout (-o -), the default becomes -f best/bestvideo+bestaudio.

So I think that it should normally pull down the best audio unless you get into some situation where YouTube doesn't offer a format that simultaneously has the combination of highest audio quality with the highest video quality; if it has to do so to get the highest video quality then, it'll sacrifice audio quality.

EDIT: Hmm. I could have sworn that there was more text about prioritizing relative audio and video quality at one point in the man page, but I don't see anything there now. Maybe it can just always get the best audio quality, regardless of video quality, can pull 'em entirely separately.

The line must go up, it enshitifies every company eventually.

Most likely, especially if it's not locked to one device. I know about their premium lite sub, but 8 dollars for "less" ads isn't going to do it for me.