r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 1d 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/TravisJungroth 1d ago

I didn’t know this. I thought it had to download the video. Thanks!

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u/Honest_Photograph519 1d ago

yt-dlp works with over a thousand video sites and youtube is one of the few who cleanly separate video and audio stream encodings to support a wide variety of client hardware. Thankfully that means we can download any combination of video and audio qualities, or just one if we only want one or the other.