YouTube is cracking down Adblocker and they may never work in a year or so.
I don’t watch YouTube that much and most of the time I watch the same thing. So I am thinking of mirroring the videos I watch to other platforms. But I don’t know which. I was just thinking of ok.ru. I don’t know if they respond to DMCA requests.
Did anyone do something similar?
Peertube can mirror a YouTube channel automatically, but it will probably be hard to find an instance that allows it, unless it’s your own channel.
Otherwise, you can setup peertube yourself and mirror away ;)
You could use yt-dlp to download the videos / channels / playlists you want to save, although they wouldn’t be available online.
I’ve had no issues with my combo: blocky container (dns), uBlock origin, and LibRedirect (manually configured with nearby instances).
I don’t have issues too but Google is expirementing things like server side ads injection that will be hard to circumvent.
If you’re into selfhosting (this is datahoarder after all) I recently got around to backing up my fav channels with
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
and it’s very good indeed.
One thing this recent ad injection debacle has me worried about is that I’ll open an archived download of a YouTube video and find ads in my files. I have hesitated to continue my personal archival project until I could be 100% sure my downloads are clean, because I can’t go through everything to make sure they didn’t inject a 5 second ad somewhere.
I guess if you get the length with yt-dlp, and then compare with the downloaded file, and the length is within a one second tolerance, it should be fine. At least I would think the length that yt-dlp extracts would not include the baked in ad, but of course youtube could make it so.
Btw I haven’t heard about this thing since it first came out. Is it really happening?
Yes it happening but it is in the experiment phase so few users are seeing that.
