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.
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.
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.
