• beatniak@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just use newpipe. It’s youtube without the ads. Doesn’t have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.

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      1 year ago

      Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.

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          Honestly curious if they’d ever consider that, considering how popular watching youtube on the phone is, so I could see them trying to get even desktop users to use an app to prevent 3rd party launchers

          If they did though, it would probably cause at least a decent number of people to try to find alternatives

          At the end of the day, the main way the fediverse gets new users is the big tech companies screwing up