I miss being able to watch yustub videos, but now they're just stuck in endless ads, or ad-blocker-blocker dialogs.
If they think I'm somehow going to PAY them for this increasing hostility, they're ...
To run yt-dlp against YT you need python, deno/quickjs/bun and ffmpeg (not needed if you need to download audio only) and that's it. I followed this instruction - https://dalliard.ch/bsd/ytdlp/ - and works like yt-dlp from ports. In fact, it will still work without js interpreter, but list of downloadable formats will be limited.
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