On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote:
> 
> Install umatrix + ublock-origin and that pestilence is gone. Be aware that 
> you'll have to fiddle with umatrix to get videos playing.
> 
> yt-download is gon with the wind. Use a fork  like yt-ldp 
> https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp - that's what I have in use.

Since my off-topic remark seems to have spawned so much traffic, I will
mention that I hae been using Noscript, Adblock latitude and uBlock
Origin in my default browser for many years, and do not normally see
any advertisements. 

The youtube video stuff embedded in/preprended to the video stream seemed to be
something different. Perhaps I could have found a way to block that.
But, as I think I conveyed, I didn't want to view these videos in
a browser anyway: just keep downloading and viewing as and when I
chose with a highly flexible player like mpv or mplayer or whatever.
Just as I was used to with youtube-dl. But Nikolaus has solved that
by pointing to yt-dl which I ought to have found myself.

Not that I want to inhibit the extended conversation about blocking
more generally. Thanks to everyone.

ael


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