You don’t cut it, that is the answer. Although I suspect that a foss or community scanning tool could also be created with that same advertising databank to try and redraw that portion of scene without the embedded ad (although that likely would have to be a generated guess).

It is not perfect. That is for sure, but why throw in the towel? If anything, start ripping now and prepare for the future.

Regarding the short form content, that is a valid concern, but I would argue that’s more of an issue with the medium rather than with the tools available. However, regarding the embedded advertising, yt-dlp already has sponsorblock trimming integrated into the program (you can set a flag to remove detected segments from the finished video file), and extending this to encompass a databank of known circulating advertisements could go a long way.

Also, curated lists for certain categories could be maintained by groups. Hardware tutorials, for instance, rarely need constant updates and therefore a known good library could be downloaded once and circulated.

You do have plenty of options for downloading youtube videos directly without viewing them using tools like yt-dlp either in terminal or using one of its many GUI front ends. Apps like GrayJay and YT Revanced also have downloading youtube videos integrated, so no setup needed.

I have my own personal collection from my favorite creators :)

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me! (Has been for years now)

Most likely, yeah.

A rogue employee, if you can find one.

First two are core memories for all mc players lol

I wonder how economical it would be to do a homemade EV conversion once my car’s engine is no longer feasible to maintain.

Knowing that maybe I brightened someone’s day on the internet :)

Damn. I usually got around that by having people send things to me to fix at my workbench, and then I mail them back.

“Sometimes, I dream about cheese…”

I plan on getting TF2ENGR on mine some day

Technically, you’re basically just protecting them from being accused of “Friendly fraud” by Amazon. All of the deliveries are insured, and the customer will still get the item eventually. You’ll just be costing Amazon’s insurer and theoretically raising their premiums.

Although it’s debatable if that’s a net benefit or cost to society lol, reminds me of those posts that say to randomly shoot a gun from a safe place within your city to lower home prices.

Hey, you made it to 0006! That’s a new record!

I wonder if you’ll break 0007 by the end of the year. That’d be funny.

To be honest it’s just a personal preference. You’ll have access to the same posts and comments either way.

I deleted my google account and moved all of my youtube activity onto Grayjay (since it doesn’t require any account and any saved “subscriptions” are stored on your device locally), maybe that could be an option for you? They even have a desktop client now :)

Honestly, even as an American (from California - a rare state of sanity in this damn country), I’ve been moving to de-google and move away from stuff like reddit for months now at this point. Especially since user data requests by our federal government (and likely other world governments) are an open secret that these companies can’t really refuse.

Glad to see y’all on the same path :)

Especially if the linux support is good. I guess we’ll have to wait for reviews.

Counterpoint: I get joy from giving headpat to cat :)

That one’s the best by far.