I recently got my (via VPN) YouTube subscription cancelled and now I am wondering, if YouTube videos are findable in the usenet or using torrent tracker.
Does anyone already have experience with this? I block ads, but it seems not like a sustainable solution.
You’re looking for yt-dlp
OK, yt-dlp is awesome. It does things even beyond YouTube exceptionally well. The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with the space for videos. If you don’t have a spare 5 tb , place the YouTube url into a Bing search - no ads, no login
The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with space for videos
Some media players allows for streaming directly using yt-dlp, e.g.;
mpv <youtube url>Will use yt-dlp if installed
+1 to this but also, If you’re on Linux, I’d recommend Freetube.
It’s on Flathub and allows you to use SponsorBlock.
Mpv has plugins that include sponsorblock, but freetube and others aren’t bad as well.
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I use FreeTube a lot, but wow the quality difference is insane.
On mobile I use Seal. It’s yt-dlp packaged into an Android app
I have been using Freetube since October of 2023 even know there are browser based blocking options. I just like it so much better. The only thing (and this is minor) that bothers me, is I fall asleep a lot of times with videos kind of running in the background and my laptop goes into ‘auto suspend’ after sometime. I normally have a linux terminal window in the background and I run a command to make it suspend after 45 minutes when I lay down. When I wake it back up I have to hit “ctrl + r” for a second to re-load the video other wise it does not like it. This is on top of the 10 or so seconds it takes my computer to wake up from suspend and get an IP address on my network again.
https://freetubeapp.io/ for watching, https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat for archiving
if you already have a vpn you can just tunnel through albania -> no ads.
Same with Morocco, no ads. At least it was a few years ago when I was there. Even downloading videos for offline playing was activated in the official YouTube app.
I’d recommend yt-dlp for downloads.
If you want to stream, you can use yt-dlp in combination with mpv,
OR
You can just install FreeTube if you want SponsorBlock as well.
I second freetube
It gets broken by YouTube API changes quite often, especially if you want to Tunnel through invidious, but they update quite fast and the experience is super smooth when working
