I know it’s a pain, but what’s to stop us from using download-clis? In theory I could “collect” the urls that are recommended to me from my home page, call the clis, click all the videos to update my recommendations then close the browser.
using the browser isn’t necessary to keep your watch history up to date.
yt-dlp can log in as you by reading your cookies from your browser, and, with the optional --mark-watched flag, mark your downloaded videos as watched in your YT account.
The no competition in the market, is the issue. Hope the situation improves in near future. With it innovations will gradually increase & the demand within the markets will point the directions.
I dusted off an old laptop, put debian on it, put an SSD and now I have my own invidious instance, among other services…
No ads, no throttling, no bullshit. Google is very welcome to suck it. I’d gladly stop using youtube, but there’s no competition.
I know it’s a pain, but what’s to stop us from using download-clis? In theory I could “collect” the urls that are recommended to me from my home page, call the clis, click all the videos to update my recommendations then close the browser.
using the browser isn’t necessary to keep your watch history up to date.
yt-dlp can log in as you by reading your cookies from your browser, and, with the optional --mark-watched flag, mark your downloaded videos as watched in your YT account.
TIL. Thank you very much. Looks like I’m going to be using that if YouTube gets even more painful.
Next step is guaranteed to be limiting the number of views without being logged in.
I have YouTube premium. It still detects the adblocker. It’s infuriating.
The more stuff they do to shoot themselves in the foot, the sooner something else comes in to replace youtube
The no competition in the market, is the issue. Hope the situation improves in near future. With it innovations will gradually increase & the demand within the markets will point the directions.
I wish I could do the same thing with my 2008 VAIO laptop :/
Thank you for reminding me to get myself an invidious instance set up. It isn’t a huge pain or anything, right?
Not really, they have a docker compose file ready to go, and it works without issue.