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Old December 31st 17, 08:19 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Joe Scotch
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Default Is there an ad-free YouTube clone for Windows like NewPipe is for Android?

/nIn news wrote:

DownloadHelper downloads the videos. No ads.
you can play them as you like and store a copy.
If you want to know how AdBlock Plus works then
why not try it yourself?


I appreciate that you are trying to stay on topic, which is how to get the
functionality of New Pipe in a single executable on Windows (and not by
multiple methods - none of which do what New Pipe does).

I appreciate your advice on how to download a video but most of the time
I'm streaming the video (because I just want to watch it without what
Man-wai Chang called "slipstream ads").

If I had wanted to *only* download videos, rest assured I know all about
downloading videos, probably better than most people do, but maybe not as
well as you do since you use a browser to do what I'd just use a simple
one-line command to do (so you may know more than I do on how to download
1-hour, 2-hour and 3-hour videos which is what I generally download if I
feel the need.)

On Windows, I download any YouTube video by running this simple command:
C:] youtube-dl.exe -f 18 {URL}
Or I extract just the audio with this simple command:
C:] youtube-dl.exe -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 {URL}

But most of the time I'm just streaming the video, where you're the *third*
person to imply that AdBlock does that, all by itself, without even a
browser, which is odd becuase that's not what I think AdBlock does.

Everyone thinks AdBlock is Jesus Christ incarnate, but it's just a
host-file blocker - which if I wanted that, I'd use Acrylic DNS instead (or
maybe just the MVP Hosts file).

AdBlock is not Jesus Christ incarnate - although everyone here seems to
think it is.

In fact, you're the third person to imply Adblock does everything that New
Pipe does.

And yet, nobody has answered the simple question which is how AdBlock, all
by itself, removes what Man-wai Chang calls "slipstream" ads from any
YouTube video?

This is a simple question which can be answered by anyone who uses AdBlock
while streaming YouTube videos.

While this thread was never intended to be an AdBlock versus NewPipe
question, since three people intimated that AdBlock does everything that
New Pipe does - the main question is whether Ad Block does the *simplest*
thing that New Pipe does.

It's a simple question, which nobody has answered yet.
And I can't tell from the AdBlock ads! https://youtu.be/9iL8pGHgBjU

In fact, the NYT says AdBlock is designed to *allow* ads???????
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/b...-the-door.html

So I'm forced to ask the 3 people who suggested AdBlock a simple question.
*Does AdBlock block all slipstream ads from inside of videos or not?*
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