Author: Ken Dibble Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Youtube is slow and advertisement laden: Was: Early Days
at Bell Labs - Youtube, the systemd of video
On 1/16/22 4:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > ael via Dng said on Sun, 16 Jan 2022 11:56:51 +0000
>
>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 04:12:44AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> This was discussed on the devuan-offtopic IRC channel, so I watched
>>> the video:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E >> But youtube has become impossible to watch with hideous intrusive
>> deviant advertisements...
> Impossible is lifting a Cadillac over your head with just your body's
> muscles. Annoying is Youtube advertisements. Youtube is still
> watchable. And, if you hate advertisements, you can just subscribe to
> Youtube Premium and not get them.
>
>> And google seem to have found a way to make
>> youtube-dl hopelessly slow.
> This throttling of youtube-dl is inconvenient but not life-altering.
> You can make a list of videos you want to download, put them all in a
> shellscript, and set it off just before you go to bed. The next day
> you'll have all the videos.
>
> Here's a tip: Be sure to use the --restrict-filenames option so you
> don't get hard to rename filenames.
>
> SteveT
>
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Or just install tsp and submit the download commands to the queue.
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