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I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don't even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don't understand it either.
Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, .... Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.
I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I'm bombing my nearest Google office.
I used to just
yt-dlpany YT video links people share, but that doesn't work anymore and no ETA on a fix.My new favorite thing is my PeerTube instance. ~~
yt-dlpis basically broken for almost all YT videos now since it doesn't yet support SABR, and most videos are forcing that now.~~ Peertube's importer seems to have no problem with it, so that's where I am.Someone shares a YT link? Copy, paste into Peertube, wait like 30 seconds for the transcode, and watch. No BS. And if I want to watch it later? Well, there it already is.
Edit: It appears the wonderful people maintaining
yt-dlphave fixed that since I last tried back in December.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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
I had to update mine and add some extra arguments:
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-web_safari" -t mp4 "<URL / ID>"Update yt-dlp it literally works. ETA is 0