I have a tab open that just loads a different ad every time I refresh. Apparently they've also started showing you a popup telling you that Youtube does not allow adblocking, telling you to either allow ads or buy YT Premium. Haven't seen that one myself, just started getting pre-video ads.

Seeing an ad on my desktop computer felt like someone just invaded my personal space or dipped their nuts in my drink while making eye contact, like I'm used to the browsing experience on phones sucking ass but I haven't had to deal with ads on PC in over a decade, it literally feels alien :what-the-hell:

  • innocentlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I remember that I followed a tutorial once on how to watch YT in VLC. Gotta be a script that does it auto

    • captcha [any]
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      2 years ago

      Theres a python script called youtube-dl that got shut down a while ago but is still fairly accessible since its just code. Itll download videos from basically any streaming website.

      If you have youtube-dl and mpv installed you can just slap mpv <URL> and it just werx.