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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, they're not split. Each one of those results you get from yt-dlp is a different version of the same video. I.e. different resolutions, different codecs. Some of them are the audio, some of them are the video, but they're not split.

[–] EleventhHour 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They are also that. But when you watch YouTube-dl download a video, it downloads several parts, then ffmpeg recombines them into a single output file.

[–] whats_all_this_then 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn't mean the files are split on the server.

[–] EleventhHour 1 points 3 months ago

I mean, you can sit here and make up a bunch of different reasons, but the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.