Yes

It’s fine, I never used ad blockers

Internet is kinda unusable without them.

Not really, I can work the internet just fine without them, we used to sit through 30 minutes of un skippable ads, Bernd can handle a 5 second clip.

When will KC get ads so we can get paid for being a mod.

trying to use the fandom wiki without adblock is torture tho, especially on the phone.

 

i really should get an adblock there

Kek actually, I can’t even tell what’s on my screen.

Embrace invidious and yt-dlp.

Invidious has always been shit. I use yt-dlp when I want to download videos, it's not convenient for watching lots of stuff, I only download special videos.

Get firefox, it supports extensions on mobile.

If im in shower or bath trying to listen to podcast it becames pretty annpying with random shitty ads every 5 minutes.

Whomp whomp

Sug BOs schnitzel and maybe he'll get the ball rolling and get you payed

I can see how that could get annoying, I personally relate when I’m trying to show people something or when I’m just trying to enjoy a video and an ad starting playing, siting there for 15 seconds of silence. It does not happen enough for me to get an ad blocker tho.

 

Well you heard the man BO, take off your pants and get on the bed NOW! or I can give you something to do when the ad starts playing in the shower.

I use invidious instances to browse youtube. Then I dl what I wanna watch, then delete right after if I don't want to keep it.

I have a bash script that sets the resolution and gets the video ID so it downloads directly from yt, and not from the invidious instance I get the link from. I just type yt in the terminal and copypaste the link after.

Now I wonder how complicated is to write a GUI for it. (I don't need it but others might use it with it.) Also shouldn't be some gui for yt-dlp by now?

There are scripts that do similar things like what you do, they even let you search for videos in the command line, then let mpv play it through ytdlp

Yes, people build all kinds of similar programs for all kinds of things. Liek, there are many text editors, and many browsers, or many databases. Doesn't stop people from making another one.

I like to build my own things, keep it as simple as possible. yt-dlp can be used as is. Including it into a script I made it more simple for me. And really the whole thing isn't more complicated than opening youtube in the browser and play videos there.

I liek to search on invidious for I can see thumbnails, and not a resource hog like youtube's own frontend and less datamining crap in theory

There was a good desktop youtube tv project, minitube I think, but last time I checked it was dead.

*laughs in Rutube*

Getting some of the videos I watch from plvideo...