[lottin]

People are downloading music clips so that they don't have to listen to ads? Why don't they just install an ad-blocker?

[iKlsR]

If the avg man knew the concept of an adblocker we would live in a different online world. I've seen people sit and watch 2 minute ads and or complain about how cramped pages are, they know they don't want ads and it's annoying but only a small percentage of that google "block youtube ads" and can click their way to install an extension etc.

[Siira]

Is it possible on iOS as well?

[r00t4ccess]

The ios youtube app seems to bypass the ad blockers, I stream on ios using brave it blocks youtube ads for me.

[kergonath]

There is a Safari extension for this. With the added advantage of replacing the stupid YouTube player with standard video controls.

https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegar

[onemoresoop]

Maybe they want the music clips for offline viewing?

[Shared404]

Indeed. If the industry won't give me a simple way to purchase a file, I'll make my own.

[zepearl]

That's my case - as I know that some music videos/clips will disappear soon or later for any reason (happened in the past), and as I cannot buy+download them then the only option I'm currently aware of is to download them with youtube-dl. It works reliably and it's simple to use.

In my case this often happens "in addition" to buying+downloading the song's mp3 (usually on Amazon).

[foxfluff]

I'm downloading them so I can listen without being randomly paused by youtube. Also ends up saving bandwidth massively, and mpv --no-video wastes far less cpu than firefox.