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I once visited a paywalled news blog which refused to show you any content behind the paywall, had multiple fullscreen popups and one of those annoying "you are using adblock" scripts. Threw the entire URL into yt-dlp and it somehow instantly found the m3u8 playlist and started downloading, 2 minutes later I had my news vid.
10/10 would throw random sites into yt-dlp again.
 
Avenue said:
I once visited a paywalled news blog which refused to show you any content behind the paywall, had multiple fullscreen popups and one of those annoying "you are using adblock" scripts. Threw the entire URL into yt-dlp and it somehow instantly found the m3u8 playlist and started downloading, 2 minutes later I had my news vid.
10/10 would throw random sites into yt-dlp again.
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for the longest, i couldn't download twitter videos without using cookies and i threw a random twitter link thinking it was youtube and it downloaded it straight from the link

based
 
There is a GUI front for yt-dlp called Tarttube not sure if its malware but I have been using it for a couple months

Also theres this software called Hydrus Network for imageboards
 
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Kiwi Andy said:
I will mald hard if kikes ever shut this down
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They can implement countermeasures on their end, such as the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" thing that Youtube has been doing lately, but there is no realistic way for them to shut down the development of the software itself.

That is the beauty of open-source software. It can outlive the institution/entity that initially created it, and therefore has built-in resilience against legal action.
 
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Squishie PP said:
They can implement countermeasures on their end, such as the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" thing that Youtube has been doing lately, but there is no realistic way for them to shut down the development of the software itself.
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If they can't manage to stop adblock, they will never kill yt-dlp. There will always been a team/or a person with severe autism that is willing to counteract jewtube
 
Osama Bin Laden said:
If they can't manage to stop adblock, they will never kill yt-dlp. There will always been a team/or a person with severe autism that is willing to counteract jewtube
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The only options left for them are to either paywall the entire site, or at least force mandatory google account logins. I suspect both of these will happen at some point in the very near future.

Thankfully, yt-dlp will still work for a lot of other sites too.
 
PFM said:
yt-dlp exists because yt-dl was shut down.
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yt-dlp existed to merge sponsorblock and other plugins into youtube-dl
a year after the takedown attempt the youtube-dl devs pulled a black dad and disappeared for a while which led to yt-dlp's dominant popularity
 
seri0us said:
yt-dlp existed to merge sponsorblock and other plugins into youtube-dl
a year after the takedown attempt the youtube-dl devs pulled a black dad and disappeared for a while which led to yt-dlp's dominant popularity
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Interestingly its a fairly direct example of open source delivering on its supposed upsides (allowing someone to rapidly pick up the torch)
 
Freetube is also really good if you want to use subscriptions/playlists without being forced to use google accounts btw.
 
Yt-dlp and mpv.
Mpv can be an image viewer, a manga reader, a music player. and a webm maker with yt-dlp, Mpv can watch streams and view Youtube without ever visiting their shitty website.
 
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