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by yimby2001 459 days ago
do you feel the same about ad blockers?
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freehorse 459 days ago
Ad blockers are basically about blocking ads. Yt-dlp has also uses whose main purpose is not about blocking ads.
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hsbauauvhabzb 458 days ago
In some reguards I would say it is. Yt-dlp terminates my need for an adblocker for the lifetime of the videos I download, something chrome no longer does on a per-view basis and these days not as easily. It also blocks the YouTube algorithm suggestions, which in my eyes are an advertisement too.
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ivoputzer 459 days ago
it's a nice side-effect though.
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