I've got most of the channels I sub to tracked by yt-dl so it all gets pulled to my nas. If Youtube starts forcing ads I'll just put some effort into getting things categorized properly into Plex and ditch their site.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I understand why they're doing this, but if you make a service that was once free, paid (whether with your time, or money), it's not a good look.
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I wonder if this would affect things like Newpipe (android YouTube client replacement with no ads) or even just playing streams via MPV. I assume that stuff is relatively safe since it's grabbing the actual video streams, but I'm sure there is still a way they could block them.
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I'm certainly not an expert in this, but surely there are ways to get around this right? Pihole? Could ad blockers fake ads being played?
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I wonder how? Unless ad-blocker extensions are currently leaking some piece of info indicating to the website that we're using them?
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