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Tell HN: After new YouTube adblocker policy, I can't stand using it
I'm finding myself closing the tab, more and more often, before the forced pre-roll commercials even complete, even for videos that I'm kind of interested in watching.
For videos I'm very interested in watching, I usually make it through, but then there will be abrupt forced commercials in the middle, and I just can't, and my hand reaches for ctrl+w..
I feel like we really lost something this time. Do you think there will be a good video platform in the future, or will we start downloading youtube videos without the commercials from our favorite creators on the pirate bay ?
- alex14fr 3y agoJust use yt-dlp bro.
- alfredoscott 3y ago[dead]
- alex14fr 3y agoThe irony.
- RGamma 3y agoI simply pay for it now, since I deem it internet culturally too important to simply give up on it. YT must be feeling pressured by the cost-side of things. Storage doesn't get infinitely cheap after all. But yeah, I download things I want to preserve since some years now, in case things go awry.
- 8chanAnon 3y agoPick an Invidious instance: https://redirect.invidious.io/ https://redirect.invidious.io/ Problem solved.