Comment by netsharc
4 hours ago
The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg
It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
I've started doing:
And never been happier. I hope it still counts as a view for the channel/owner though, but never investigated if that's actually the case.
In most builds mpv has yt-dlp integrated, you can directly pass the URL to it.
Ay, but then I don't get to teach beginners about the unix principle and how easy it is to pipe stuff between different tools :)
Thanks for the heads up regardless, I'm sure there was others who didn't know, who learned something new! :)
Very unlikely, you need the browser for that
Good thing yt-dlp is a browser.
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
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Youtube has tonnes of cookies! Why give youtube a free pass but not some independent hobbyist's site?
It doesn't get a free pass from me but it seems to work fine with only first party cookies, ublock origin and built in tracking protection active, and most (but not all) third party content blocked by umatrix.
Alternatively you can use the link in GP to grab the video via yt-dlp. Can even do that via tor if you want. (Weirdly at least historically youtube was friendlier to tor exit nodes than it was to a lot of mainstream VPNs. Not sure what was up with that, haven't tested it in a while.)
I never got any cookie prompts for this site so I guess these did not make it past the content filters which keep cdn-cookieyes.com at bay. No cookies, no problem.