Author: dng@d404.nl Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Youtube is slow and advertisement laden: Was: Early Days
at Bell Labs - Youtube, the systemd of video
On 17-01-2022 09:41, Mike Tubby wrote: > 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.
>>
>>
>> Ken
> On mobile you could try installing Adguard.
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