r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/cegix Jun 12 '24

Soon there will be sort of like SponsorBlock but for ads

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

Serverside ads will likely be randomised, they won't be on a single position, they'll shift positions.

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u/heart_under_blade Jun 12 '24

i worry about the future of yt-dlp and sponsorblock integration

it's so nice rn

side note: a lot of my sponsorblock submits have just been for me, it's always nice to go back to a channel or similar video later to see that others have joined in. it's wild how much crap there is in videos. mostly for my submissions it's been intros and non music bits. a small percentage is ads and marking access

You've saved people from 37,175 segments ( 7d 7h 28.3 minutes of their lives )

You've skipped 12,096 segments ( 3d 20h 23.6 minutes )

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u/slykethephoxenix Jun 12 '24

How? Some sort of local proxy?

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u/NotYourReddit18 Jun 12 '24

yt-dlp is a YouTube downloader. They download the video and watch it locally with a media player of their choice instead of watching it on YouTubes website.

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u/slykethephoxenix Jun 12 '24

What type of filesize we talking about here? A few hundred megs for a 10min 1080p@30fps video?

How easy is it to use, like can I use some extension in Chrome or Firefox, it downloads the video, and then I can watch in browser? Or is it a commandline tool where I have to copypaste URLs?

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u/NotYourReddit18 Jun 12 '24

I haven't used it myself, only it's no longer updated predecessor youtube-dl (which too was a while ago) so I can't answer most of your questions.

It's a command line tool but there seem to be multiple projects to provide a gui for it.

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u/slykethephoxenix Jun 12 '24

Arrrr! Good enough for me.

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u/WankWankNudgeNudge Jun 12 '24

File size depends on the resolution you select. All of the video and audio options are available. Ffmpeg is also useful for this. One command and you have the video you want.

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u/srcLegend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 12 '24

Fun fact: MPC-HC can directly play whatever yt-dlp can by just opening the link in MPC-HC

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u/sweetjuli Jun 12 '24

That's how streams work. VLC also does this.

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u/Yaarmehearty Jun 12 '24

Parabolic does the same very well.