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.

Yea, I have a couple more that I forget does what (I think a couple are for hiding youtube games and shorts and stuff), but it should just look like this in my filters.

That’s how much my student subscription is, that’s why I was curious. I think it’s $6.99 plus tax?

Why aren't you using another platform?

This made me laugh. I wonder which one will prevail in the end

It's certainly not an ideal solution, but it's an option that will usually work.

Ty so very much kind person.

Because YouTube is where shit happens dude. Yeah sure theres peertube and others, but frankly, nobody that people care about are uploading to them. Not to mention they don't offer the monetization opportunities for creators that YouTube does.

Ad block and sponsor block and call it a day.

I switched to Firefox basically as soon as ublock origin didn't work on chrome. It was easier than I thought it would be.

I mean, you can never really rule it out..

American flavoured capitalism has poisoned the well.

In related news, PeerTube just achieved its funding goal - including all of its stretch goals.

Very good news!!

Your premium tier has been upgraded to the basic plan with ads at no extra charge for you yet, Dear Customer! Aren't you happy?

And his stupid CEO specifically. I've yet to hear him pitch a good idea.

Same here. The SponsorBlock in SkyTube skips intros and "like and subscribe", too. Even in downloads.

Good to know, thanks.

They can get fucked. A while ago O was like you know what let's give them money, seems only fair. So I finally subscribed, and then like a month later they sent me an email they're raising the prices effective immediately - basically changing the deal on me without any delay.

So I unsubscribed, because fuck that.

More recently I looked into sharing the family plan with ...my family, but it turna out they consider family only in a single household, and I'm not gonna try to give them money while also potentially having to prove how much of a family we are, so yeah...

Fuck them, either take my money when I'm actually trying, or I guess they didn't need it that bad. I'm over YouTube, and would probably ditch it earlier than ever watching an ad there.