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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] 19 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

and they'll be unskippable

I'm sure i've heard this before, but yt-dlp still skips them fine.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Yt-Dlp has been breaking recently and requiring cookies to be entered in order to work at all.

    I've never seen a company quadruple dip on something before. It's like surviving enshittification and then still continuing to push for further revenues.

    Error retrying ...

    Rate limited, waiting 60 seconds ...

    Video not found

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It has been breaking a lot lately and it’s really sad. I pretty much pull all of my content off of YouTube now through yt-dlp so once that goes, im pretty much entirely YouTube free. I absolutely refuse to use it in the state it’s in now and really wish more creators would offer content on other platforms. Yt-dip is amazing and great but shouldn’t be the permanent solution.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Isn’t that what Nebula/CuriosityStream is? All my favorite YouTubers promote it, though the caveat is you have to pay but I think the money actually goes to the creators (and they put bonus content on it like a patreon).

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