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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

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[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Good, fuck those greedy bastards. yt-dlp + mpv with sponsorblock FTW, bonus points for stopping using a YouTube account altogether and using RSS feeds for your subscriptions instead.

[-] Maheswara@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago

Bro... How to setup RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions...

[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just replace CHANNEL_ID with the ID of the channel you want to get the RSS feed from (to my knowledge it's only limited to the last 15 items) : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

Or using curl and sed : curl -s youtube_channel_url | sed -n 's/.*title="RSS"\s+href="([^"]+).*/\1/p'

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

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[-] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

mpv with sponsorblock

How?

[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Look under Sponsorblock Options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

In your mpv.conf you can just add ytdl-raw-options sponsorblock remove all

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Don't watch it. I mean they have to make money. I block ads I don't care and I'm not making up bs to justify it. I don't cause I want to and I can.

[-] Rosco@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I'm more than happy to support my favourite content creators by other means, be it simple donation or merch. I will never subject myself to stupid ads, no matter the reason.

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