On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote:
> Anno domini 2022 Sun, 16 Jan 11:56:51 +0000
> ael via Dng scripsit:
> > But youtube has become impossible to watch with hideous intrusive
> > deviant advertisements... And google seem to have found a way to make
> > youtube-dl hopelessly slow. Not to mention that the YT viewer is
> > dire: you can't slow down or speed up etc like, say, mpv.
>
> Install umatrix + ublock-origin and that pestilence is gone. Be aware that you'll have to fiddle with umatrix to get videos playing.
>
> yt-download is gon with the wind. Use a fork like yt-ldp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp - that's what I have in use.

Thank you so much for that. I should have found yt-dlp myself. Just
tried it and it worked perfectly, at least on one test case.

Wonderful.

ael