• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been wondering if automated download tools will be subject to this. I run Downie and youtube-dl on my Mac. Both have escaped ads until now. I haven’t yet run into the ad-block-block to test if they can get around it.

    • fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think youtube-dl (or yt-dlp) takes frame buffers from watching the video and just glues them together. I don’t think there is much Google could, they have already tried to take it off GitHub before.