Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

Post by k12sosse » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

comprev wrote: post #256

genewitch wrote: post #171

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In the 1940s and 1950s radio programs and eventually television shows were sponsored by advertisers. soap operas get their name for being vehicles for soap companies. Off the top of my head Fitch's soap company was a big advertiser in the 40s. Another big advertiser in the forties and fifties was rexall. I don't know what the return on investment was, I always figured they did it as a way to show that they supported…

Unilever was a sponsor of early TV dramas in the UK

Post by t-3 » Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 3:17 AM UTC

realityking wrote: post #277

Brian_K_White wrote: post #102

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In fact I do pay for yt premium, yet still get these kinds of ads. So much for that misplaced and invalid attempt at moralizing. "are they so terrible?" and "what's the alternative?" are not my problem to answer, and I don't even have to agree they are valid questions that someone has to answer. I do not accept the premise that the only way content can exist is if advertisers pay for it. That's a false dichotomy. The…

> I will happily live in a world that only has content that was either fully paid for by purchasing copies or subscriptions, or given to the world for free. How do you feel about DRM to make sure content is only accessible to those who paid for it?

Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 8:26 AM UTC

deeblering4 wrote: post #309

kelnos wrote: post #77

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I pay $10/mo for YouTube Premium, and my expectation is that I will not have to sit through any ads. A sponsorship is an ad, which violates that expectation, so I use SponsorBlock to skip them. For channels that I watch regularly, I contribute to their Patreon if they have one. I shouldn't have to sit through a sponsorship segment in addition to that.

Its not entirely the channels fault. If youtube paid creators a higher share on monetized videos and didn't keep changing the ranking and terms there would be less need to add alternate forms of monetization. Heck, youtube could even build in a patron feature much like twitch has with subscriptions.

Post by irae » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 12:23 AM UTC

Tistron wrote: post #64

For me, something like this is exactly where Deno would shine. I could just run `deno run --allow-net=YouTube.com --allow-write=.` and not worry about that it could do anything dangerous. Probably the url list would be a bit more complicated, but I could also just blanket allow net without worrying, since allow-read isn't needed.

Post by pukkandan » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

nebula8804 wrote: post #28

banana_giraffe wrote: post #11

One of the nice features added to yt-dlp recently: It integrates with sponskrub to call into the SponsorBlock database and with the right options will strip the sponsor segments from downloaded videos. Edit: Correct typo

Man I thought I was in heaven when I accidentally stumbled upon SponsorBlock. Now you're telling me about this?! Amazing! How does the video quality fare after stripping? Is it re-encoding the video or somehow stripping it without altering the quality?