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Is Google deliberately slowing down the buffering of videos on YouTube for visitors who use an ad blocker?

Luckily I just use Freetube and yt-dlp 🤷

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I can’t seem to get yt-dlp to download audio with video.

🤔 I just use yt-dlp $youtubeLink e.g yt-dlp 'https://youtu.be/fG8SwAFQFuU' and it downloads both.

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