• waspentalive@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.

    Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?

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      1 year ago

      Just use newpipe. It’s youtube without the ads. Doesn’t have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.

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        1 year ago

        Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.

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          1 year ago

          It’s not easily block able as it scrapes the YouTube website. They’d have to stop having a website for that to happen.

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            1 year ago

            The problem with scraping is that while it’s difficult/impossible to block completely, it’s pretty easy to keep making changes to your site to disrupt scrapers. The work required by the scraper to adapt to those changes is usually way more than the work you put in to disrupt them.

            So if a commercial site wants to make scraping unreliable and impractical, they almost certainly can.

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              1 year ago

              It’s also easy for the NewPipe devs to update their app and make it work again. This has been going on for years already.

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            Honestly curious if they’d ever consider that, considering how popular watching youtube on the phone is, so I could see them trying to get even desktop users to use an app to prevent 3rd party launchers

            If they did though, it would probably cause at least a decent number of people to try to find alternatives

            At the end of the day, the main way the fediverse gets new users is the big tech companies screwing up