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Clearly, Google is serious about trying to oust ad blockers from its browser, or at least those extensions with fuller (V2) levels of functionality. One of the crucial twists with V3 is that it prevents the use of remotely hosted code – as a security measure – but this also means ad blockers can’t update their filter lists without going through Google’s review process. What does that mean? Way slower updates for said filters, which hampers the ability of the ad-blocking extension to keep up with the necessary changes to stay effective.

(This isn’t just about browsers, either, as the war on advert dodgers extends to YouTube, too, as we’ve seen in recent months).

At any rate, Google is playing with fire here somewhat – or Firefox, perhaps we should say – as this may be the shove some folks need to get them considering another of the best web browsers out there aside from Chrome. Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has vowed to maintain support for V2 extensions, while introducing support for V3 alongside to give folks a choice (now there’s a radical idea).

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What's a good YouTube downloader these days?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

yt-dlp is the gold standard. Not only for YouTube either. Check out the man page, the amount of shit it can do is insane.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yt-dlp is what i normally use, tho its only got a command line interface. I think someone's made a GUI for it, but I've never tried it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

theres seal on android, ive used it on waydroid but thats pretty silly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There's like 20 guis

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

yt-dlp continues to be the best option for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if youre just looking for a downloader website with zero setup of your own there's cobalt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah. Another vote for Seal!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A great privacy focused client for YouTube is FreeTube. Uses a native API or Invidious for playback, and you can download and share videos from it. Doesn't give any identifying info to Google/YouTube and I've never once dealt with an ad. For mobile, Grayjay and NewPipe are similar apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The downloading on freetube is so bad as to be functionally broken, and based on what reading I did to try to get it good, it sounds like it's gonna stay how it is forever.

Basically it should be considered a lie to advertise freetube as having a working download function, even if it can technically do it. I wish it were better because it's a neat little program for viewing without mucking up recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Screen capture while the video is running, like the VCR days of yore

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Nah, man. I point a Betamax camcorder on a tripod at my 4K, 16bpp graphics workstation monitor to make sure I really capture all those pixels.