I recently got my (via VPN) YouTube subscription cancelled and now I am wondering, if YouTube videos are findable in the usenet or using torrent tracker.

Does anyone already have experience with this? I block ads, but it seems not like a sustainable solution.

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 41 points 4 months ago (11 children)

You're looking for yt-dlp

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

OK, yt-dlp is awesome. It does things even beyond YouTube exceptionally well. The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with the space for videos. If you don't have a spare 5 tb , place the YouTube url into a Bing search - no ads, no login

[–] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

The whole downside is that not everyone is a data horder with space for videos

Some media players allows for streaming directly using yt-dlp, e.g.;

mpv <youtube url>

Will use yt-dlp if installed

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

+1 to this but also, If you're on Linux, I'd recommend Freetube.

It's on Flathub and allows you to use SponsorBlock.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 months ago

Mpv has plugins that include sponsorblock, but freetube and others aren't bad as well.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

I use FreeTube a lot, but wow the quality difference is insane.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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