Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction(rakhim.exotext.com)

47 points by ambigious7777 1 year ago | 21 comments

Solving the Riddle of Reproduction(historytoday.com)

9 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 2 comments

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it(playtoob.com)

111 points by devrimco 3 years ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Somehash – A Blurhash-inspired exploration(travisbumgarner.dev)

16 points by theogravity 1 year ago | 1 comments

Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)

63 points by pbohun 4 days ago | 18 comments

Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press(windowsread.me)

495 points by Leftium 1 year ago | 216 comments

A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 4 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

IMG_0001(walzr.com)

1750 points by walz 1 year ago | 278 comments

Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.

YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban(torrentfreak.com)

380 points by marban 3 years ago | 190 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that hosting provider Uberspace took down the youtube-dl website after a German court ruling in a copyright lawsuit by major record labels.

Bypassing YouTube video download throttling(blog.0x7d0.dev)

466 points by 0x7d0 3 years ago | 193 comments

Blog post explaining how tools like yt-dlp bypass YouTube's video download throttling by reverse-engineering its JavaScript signature parameters.