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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Imagine being a paying Premium member and still get caught by this.. That said, the YouTube comments are worth shit, so not much is lost there. The descriptions can be quite annoying when missing.

I really should start looking into yt-dlp or something. Anybody know if that's still working fine these days?

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

    “Who’s still watching in 2026”

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

    One thing is certain: Your distro's repository's version of yt-dlp - even on bleeding edge distros - is likely out of date, and you'll have to find and run the appimage version from the devs.

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

    You can just pass the --update flag when invoking yt-dlp. I don't think the package itself needs to be up to date in order to work reliably.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That only works if yt-dlp was installed as a standalone binary or via pip. If it was installed from a distro repository, the self-update mechanism is intentionally disabled because the package manager controls the version. In that case --update does nothing : /

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