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You can actually download the ads with YouTube-dl... I believe it's YouTube only and still named as 'experimental', but theoretically it could be a default to a

• savoytruffle 8y ago
  But surely they arrive as separate files, and not interspersed in the main video. So it's implausible they'd ever be watched.
  • skinnymuch 8y ago
    Yes they would most likely arrive as separate files. Though YouTube-dl could force their main codebase to merge the videos. Regardless from looking around it doesn’t look like ads are downloaded.
• skinnymuch 8y ago
  Do you know where to find this or if this is definitely true? I tried looking around before and YouTube-dl didn’t have any ad downloading ability. I just tried looking now and at first glance it doesn’t look like it does. Nothing in the changelog for past year either.
  • naikrovek 8y ago
    It can download ads. It is a command line option.