YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
That’s not bulletproof either. I remember I used to watch Twitch using mpv, but I stopped around the time Twitch started experimenting with injecting ads in the stream directly… So I would get them even in mpv. They probably stopped experimenting with that, but it’s technically possible for them to do.
The tricks YT doesn’t want you knowing about…
NewPipe
Piped
Invidious
Check also LibreTube and YMusic
Also
youtube-dl/yt-dlp(ormpvdirectly) if you just want to play and/or download videos and don’t care about the UI or subscription stuff.That’s not bulletproof either. I remember I used to watch Twitch using mpv, but I stopped around the time Twitch started experimenting with injecting ads in the stream directly… So I would get them even in mpv. They probably stopped experimenting with that, but it’s technically possible for them to do.
Isn’t that something they can also target and shut down? Either through legal action or blocking calls from unverified sources?