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Author: Mike Tubby
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Youtube is slow and advertisement laden: Was: Early Days at Bell Labs - Youtube, the systemd of video
I have Adblock Plus installed and never see adverts on Youtube at
home... only on the mobile.

On 17/01/2022 02:54, Ken Dibble wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Steve Litt
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> Or just install tsp and submit the download commands to the queue.
>
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> Ken
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