I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier ( gitlab.com )
The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp
and play the video through mpv
.
It turns out, writing a Firefox extension is easy and tricking Firefox into launching yt-dlp
isn't much harder (though it does require some annoying configuration on the user's end).
Anyway, if you're a Linux user, feel free to try it out. I don't know how much I'm going to pour into this, but as an exercise of "can this be done", it was pretty good for a few hours on a Friday night.
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