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Love it. But expect hell from Google and record labels / music artists alike. All the best.

• 6stringmerc 11y ago
  Yeah, I'm not a big industry player but I'm not exactly enamored with this kind of thing. One question would be does Youtube-dl still provide compensation to the artists/label/publisher/etc in the same format as a stream? If not, then it's genuinely circumventing the (admittedly limited) tracking and compensation structure YouTube has set up. That...probably won't work out very well in the long run.
  • JoshTriplett 11y ago
    Yes and no: it counts as a "view", but it doesn't show ads.
    • developer1 11y ago
      Restated: no. Monetization depends on the ads. Using such a tool is equivalent to using an ad blocker. If you're comfortable using an ad blocker, you're not doing much different here.
      • JoshTriplett 11y ago
        Exactly. I never see ads on YouTube when using Firefox, only when using the Android YouTube app.