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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Please download and archive your favorite channels and videos!

Host them yourself to watch them locally.

Especially do this for educational material, share it wide and far!

We are entering a very dark age of techno-dystopia, we need to fight it with everything we have. Pirate, seed, screen-record, download, archive, share, never give up.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Quick shout out to yt-dlp. It comes everything you need to download, transcode, and even use Sponsorblock!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I also recommend NewPipe for Android. It lets you download in multiple formats and shows comments in a mobile format (you can get it through the F-Droid store or from github.)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    NewPipe

    FreeTube for Windows. Finally stable, download options, subs, history, ex-/importable data, locally, no ads of course. It's awesome!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Made a script/cron job to auto dl new videos from my favorite channels with ytdlp and then they are hosted through jellyfin. Archived forever, ad free, accessible to me from anywhere.

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