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Tell HN: After new YouTube adblocker policy, I can't stand using it
1 point by dusted on Nov 6, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
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 ?



I 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.


Pick an Invidious instance:

https://redirect.invidious.io/

Problem solved.


Just use yt-dlp bro.


[dead]


The irony.




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