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Anybody know why YouTube doesn't plug the ad-bypassing loophole of fetching the content directly youtube-dl style? I presume this NewPipe client is doing somet

• userbinator 6y ago
  Could they? I suppose they could concatenate ads into the video files directly, sort of like an old TV "stream"... ...except I have a decades-old VCR that can skip those too, so the technology today could probably deal with that pretty easily. "ad-bypassing" is essentially choosing not to consume content; while most if not all DRM and other protections are for preventing people from consuming content, preventing them from not consuming content is nearly impossible unless you essentially have control over their minds.