Anno domini 2022 Sun, 16 Jan 11:56:51 +0000 ael via Dng scripsit: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 04:12:44AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > This was discussed on the devuan-offtopic IRC channel, so I watched the > > video: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E > > But youtube has become impossible to watch with hideous intrusive > deviant advertisements... And google seem to have found a way to make > youtube-dl hopelessly slow. Not to mention that the YT viewer is > dire: you can't slow down or speed up etc like, say, mpv.
Install umatrix + ublock-origin and that pestilence is gone. Be aware that you'll have to fiddle with umatrix to get videos playing. yt-download is gon with the wind. Use a fork like yt-ldp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp - that's what I have in use. > > A bit off topic, I know... > > Does anyone know of a way of accessing youtube nowadays without wasting > huge amounts of time and losing the will to live and all concentration > before getting to the proper topic (etc)? No. yt is broken, since "AI" took over. Nik > > ael > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
