Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
$ mpv "youtube-url"best youtube adblocker.What’s this? How to use it? Can someone please ELI5 ?
Or (If you have the storage), yt-dlp.
mpv uses that (or youtube-dl) in background. I think yt-dlp still needs a config change?
Yt-dlp is the successor for YouTube-dl I believe you can have it function as a drop-in replacement if want to.
What’s this?
video player in linux. I think VLC can also do that
mpv video player with mpv-sponsorblock script using youtube-dl/yt-dlp hooks, run from command line / launcher.
Yes, there’s a sponsorblock plugin for VLC too.
Not just linux, Android and Windows too. Even embeded devices, MPV basically supports everything
For some reason I’m getting:
Seems weird.
Probably need to update. With plain yt-dlp you just run “yt-dlp -U”
That was correct, but yt-dlp is disabled on Debian and Ubuntu (apt), so I had to go to the Debian archives and install manually.