XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
      
   > I don't use Chrome because it doesn't allow to run add blockers   
   > recently. They removed the extensions add blockers use.   
      
   With Edge, a Chromium variant, I use: Adguard Adblocker, Privacy Badger,   
   uBlock Origin Lite (MV3 version), and Ping Blocker.  They are very   
   effective, and together give me almost everything that uBlock Origin   
   (MV2 version) did.  They overlap on coverage, but catch a bit more than   
   the others.  All of them are available at the Google Chrome Store, and   
   all of them are MV3 (Manifest version 3).  However, after several   
   months, I decided to remove uBO Lite and Privacy Badger, and just go   
   forward with Adguard AdBlocker and Ping Blocker.   
      
   Adguard Adblocker   
   https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adguard-adblocker/bgnkh   
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   Ping Blocker   
   https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ping-blocker/jkpocifanm   
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   Privacy Badger   
   https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijc   
   pdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp   
      
   uBlock Origin Lite   
   https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkj   
   ahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh   
      
   > Sometimes, with very recent videos, download in advance means I have   
   > to wait significant time for the download to finish, it doesn't   
   > download at full speed anymore.   
      
   I use yt-dlp to grab videos to keep a local copy.  The only places, so   
   far, where it doesn't work are sites that use Javascripted video players   
   with a secret key to decode the protected videos.  Their script knows   
   how to decode the video stream.  It captures the video stream as fast as   
   the server will deliver it, not at the slow pace of watching a video.   
      
   https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp   
      
   This a a command-line tool.  There are GUI frontends for it, but I found   
   yt-dlp.exe was all I needed since it is very simple to enter:   
      
   yt ""   
      
   at the command line.  Just copy the URL from the web browser's address   
   bar, and paste into the command line.  I use a batch file to specify   
   where to find the yt-dlp.exe, the output folder, and add double quotes   
   around the URL since ampersands (&) are legitimate characters in URLs to   
   separate arguments, but they screw up the command-line parser which   
   thinks they are to separate multiple commands in one command line.   
      
   yt-dlp isn't using any web browser.  Doesn't matter how slow is your web   
   browser at handling video streams.  If there is a long pause to yt-dlp,   
   it is because the server isn't delivering the video stream right away   
   perhaps as their means of throttling access.  NO TOOL can obtain a video   
   stream faster than the server will deliver it.  Not a web browser, not   
   yt-dlp, not any other video stream capture software.   
      
   yt-dlp will not get around geofencing.  For that, you could try using a   
   decent VPN that has multiple exit nodes to see if one of them is with   
   the geolocation allowed by a site.  I don't bother with a workaround to   
   geofencing.  If a site doesn't want to deliver to me, I can find the   
   same or similar content elsewhere.   
      
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