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   IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:04 JST IceCubeSoup

   IT FINALLY HAPPENED !!!!!!!

   YouTube has just now, in the last 10 minutes, started to refuse to play videos on my systems with UBlockOrigin installed and active.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:02 JST djsumdog

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     • dever
     I've been working on a frontend for yt-dlp:
     
     https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/arcstreamsium
     
     Still in beta, no release packages yet.
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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:03 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @dever I noticed the same thing. But I'm sure they are testing things. Because things worked fine when I disabled UBlockOrigin for the page and refreshed.

     But that was ten minutes ago.

     Now things are working again.

     But it is only a matter of time before they drop the hammer. So I'm going to go ahead and get all my casual YouTube watching machines up and running with yt-dlp.exe

     Otherwise, I won't be able to fight my insomnia.

     ALSO: I tried just watching a single ad

     result: FUCK NO

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:03 JST IceCubeSoup

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     • dever

     @dever cannot tolerate the ads. they are SO BAD.

     how can they possibly make them worse than the ads on regular TV ??

     HOW ?!???!??!?

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     dever (dever@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:03 JST dever

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     @IceCubeSoup I'm guilty of paying for the sub to yt premium. I've got non tech folks that latch onto it in my circle, so far it's not too expensive to tolerate.

     But, being that it started at $8, & is now $23, it's time to rejoin the pirate life again.

     Does a pi-hole still work to blackhole their ads?

     What's the setup that you're using?

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:03 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @dever just straight up yt-dlp (and ffmpeg) on Windows for now.

     I don't think a pi-hole would work with YouTube. I tried such blocking a long time ago.

     UBlockOrigin only works (worked) because it does magic at the "web request" level, inside the javascript engine, and in the context of the page.

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     dever (dever@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:04 JST dever

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     @IceCubeSoup its a general outage I think.

     roku, shield, phones all refuse to play vida on YouTube.

     also https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/

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     dever (dever@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 09:57:04 JST dever

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     @IceCubeSoup seems to be working again. nm

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:01:24 JST djsumdog

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     • dever
     Standalone. It's written in Qt6/Python and has a clipboard monitor that watches for YouBoob, Brumble and Odetosee, but I'm going to add in Viemo and Bitcute
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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:01:25 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @djsumdog @dever
     standalone, or browser extension?

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:06:54 JST IceCubeSoup

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     Windows

     @djsumdog @dever

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:06:55 JST djsumdog

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     • dever
     It integrates with mpvbuddy
     
     https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/mpvbuddy/
     
     What OS are you on? Primary is Linux, but I got some more work done on Windows and macOS.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:09:44 JST djsumdog

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     ah cool. Well if you know how to code and have Python installed, you can play around with it. You'll need to install uv too:

     git clone https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/arcstreamsium cd arcstreamsium uv sync uv run python -m arcstreamsium

     If not, I hope to have packages out .. eventually.

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:11:31 JST IceCubeSoup

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     • dever

     I hate python, but I'd do it for you.

     I'll put in on my stack of projects I'm about to get to.

     @djsumdog @dever

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:12:53 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @djsumdog @dever

     lol, mvp needs a front end, doesn't it?

     MPC-HC is a hairball

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:12:53 JST djsumdog

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     Yea mpvbuddy uses mpv (libmpv-2.dll on Windows) to play videos and keep track of where you are in each one.
     
     You don't really need a frontend for mpv though. It's very minimal, but the mac/windows ports do open up a window by default you can drag media onto.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:13:08 JST djsumdog

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     ❤️ ... mpvbuddy doesn't fully work on Windows yet. I've got a branch going for it. It will play video, but I've gotta finish up the arcstreamsium -> mpvbuddy communication (on Linux/Mac it uses a UNIX domain socket. Windows uses named pipes and they're .. more different than I realized :blobcatgrimacing: )
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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:15:53 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @djsumdog @dever

     LOL !

     Named pipes on Windows are a journey!!

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:16:25 JST djsumdog

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     • Cool Kitty

     Yes. I think that's because the .desktop file adds in --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui

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     Cool Kitty (sand@kitty.haus)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 10:16:26 JST Cool Kitty

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     • dever
     @djsumdog @IceCubeSoup @dever not just mac/windows. on linux, if you fire up mpv using your application launcher it'll give that "GUI" window as well.