ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockerswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square484fedilinkarrow-up12.05Karrow-down128file-textcross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.onlinehackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@beehaw.organdroid@lemdro.id
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minus-squareRosco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoGood, fuck those greedy bastards. yt-dlp + mpv with sponsorblock FTW, bonus points for stopping using a YouTube account altogether and using RSS feeds for your subscriptions instead.
minus-squareMaheswara Yadav@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoBro… How to setup RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions…
minus-squareRosco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoJust replace CHANNEL_ID with the ID of the channel you want to get the RSS feed from (to my knowledge it’s only limited to the last 15 items) : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID Or using curl and sed : curl -s youtube_channel_url | sed -n ‘s/.*title=“RSS”\s+href=“([^”]+).*/\1/p’
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://www.piped.video/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareRosco@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoLook under Sponsorblock Options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp In your mpv.conf you can just add ytdl-raw-options sponsorblock remove all
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDon’t watch it. I mean they have to make money. I block ads I don’t care and I’m not making up bs to justify it. I don’t cause I want to and I can.
Good, fuck those greedy bastards. yt-dlp + mpv with sponsorblock FTW, bonus points for stopping using a YouTube account altogether and using RSS feeds for your subscriptions instead.
Bro… How to setup RSS feed for YouTube subscriptions…
Just replace CHANNEL_ID with the ID of the channel you want to get the RSS feed from (to my knowledge it’s only limited to the last 15 items) : https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
Or using curl and sed : curl -s youtube_channel_url | sed -n ‘s/.*title=“RSS”\s+href=“([^”]+).*/\1/p’
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
How?
Look under Sponsorblock Options https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
In your mpv.conf you can just add ytdl-raw-options sponsorblock remove all
Don’t watch it. I mean they have to make money. I block ads I don’t care and I’m not making up bs to justify it. I don’t cause I want to and I can.