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"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] 11 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

Yt-dlp still works just fine; I used mine lastnight.

Remember to run 'yt-dlp -U' to update it.

I watch something like 20 YouTube videos a day from many different subscriptions. I don't really want to straight download them all.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Huh. I'm on the latest release and every video I download fails with the SABR notice and link to the issue for it. Maybe it's regional?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    YouTube a while back enforced some Captcha thing that broke yt-dlp without some other dependency. I'm on mobile right now and don't have the info on hand, but long story short I had the same issue and fixed it by downloading with dependencies.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Post a link that isn't working for you? Maybe I just haven't found a broken one...

    What version of yt-dlp are you running?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Oh, you're right. It does work after updating. I was on 2025.12.08 which was the latest the last time I messed with it around that same time and saw that the SABR bug had been open since March of 2025. Still open so that was what I had been watching.

    The 2026.02.04 build worked fine.

    Still gonna keep my PT instance lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'm using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.

    You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it's just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I'm directly interested in, that doesn't force content on me.

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