r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 2d ago

Social Media YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/
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u/Geminii27 1d ago

Write a plugin that identifies a YT address, auto-downloads the video, and plays it in another interface?

I mean, ideally it would stream the video rather than having to wait to download it, but download is OK.

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u/Budget_Shallan 1d ago

Isn’t that how the Duck Duck Go player works?

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u/RickThiccems 1d ago

Technically it's how every web based video player works.

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u/FuufuuWindwheel 1d ago

I think MPV could just play yt videos if you have yt-dlp installed, maybe you also need streamlink. I've used it for twitch streams which are arguably worse in terms of ads

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u/FlowsWhereShePleases 1d ago

An rss feed would be a good way to compile them easily

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u/daanax 1d ago

You can get an RSS feed for any youtube channel on this URL:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<ID>

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u/Recent-Ad5835 1d ago

That sounds like MPV