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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
submitted 11 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

I know it's a pain, but what's to stop us from using download-clis?

The answer is right there.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

TIL. Thank you very much. Looks like I'm going to be using that if YouTube gets even more painful.