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Ever since around 2017, I have not visited (or even seen) the contemporary Youtube site.

I had been using a combination of Invidious and yt-dlp (youtube-dl).

Just within the last year or two, Google has been making efforts to obstruct these tools. This can most clearly be seen with Invidious, currently suffering from a generic "This helps protect our community" error message.

It has got me thinking that Google might eventually succeed in extinguishing these islands of safety that I've so enjoyed.

People who still use raw, unmitigated Youtube today; how much of a hellscape has it become?

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[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Pretty bad on my Roku. It really discourages you from watching more than a few videos. If I start a 10 min video and it wants to play 1 min of ads first I just go Back and hot play again, usually the ad length will get shorter. Usually have to do that 2 or 3 times to get to an ad I can skip after 5 or 10 seconds.

It's too bad because Roku is good for everything else, fast UI and nice clean remote.

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