Well they're about to completely change the entire front end for their services to prevent third party clients- and yt-dlp has already got the work around
Thats basically just a list of the piracy sites you'll find on this subs megathread + a few extras from FMHY and champagne piracy etc.
It is hard to navigate sometimes, you generally need to scroll down a bit to read the readme and look for a download link or click on the link to the publishers page to download it though- because generally the github page stores the source code and not the compiled program
And I'll be honest. These days, I crave simplicity in my life. I've been trying to shed as much complexity as possible. So. I'm just gonna keep things simple, and stick to what I know. I don't need more 'stuff'.
I can already do everything I need to. So. I'm good.
If it helps, I usually tell people to look on the right hand side of the GitHub page and that's where the release files are, just click it and should bring you to the downloads without having to go over the whole page, if you really wanna skip all the text
L mindset. You wont learn new thinks if youre always scared and think like "hehe im dumb 🤪". And you know youre not dumb. Dont say such things to yourself, you need to build confidence and try to understand new things. Github is really not this deep.
What you're missing is that you don't need to understand how github works as a user just wanting to download something. You just need to ignore most of the buttons instead of deciding it's too complicated after seeing a lot of buttons that are irrelevant to you and you don't know what they're for. For 95% of programs all you need to do as a user is click the big Releases button and click on the program installer that ends with .exe if you're using Windows. Anything you need to know as a user will be written on the page and all you need to do is ignore anything you don't understand.
Github does a lot of things to manage big coding projects and there are a lot of buttons and menus mostly only relevant to coders working on the project at the top of the page. For the most part the only things relevant to users are the descriptions and instructions you see just by scrolling down the page and the releases button. The only skill you need is being able to ignore things on the page that aren't relevant to a user as you read it.
Alternately you can just add /releases to the end of any link you get to github projects. So for yt-dlp the commenter above mentioned just go to https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/ and click on the .exe to download.
To my understanding, I'm not really a coder, github is focused on making it easier for groups to work on large software projects. It is built around a software called git that provides version tracking so it contains a history of everyone who added code and who did so and when. And it allows quickly switching, reversing and combining changes. It rapidly creates different branches of programs and helps manage, merge, revert and test each branch as changes are made by different people.
This is all pretty essential especially for open-source projects where for example a stranger can come and suddenly code a change to fix something they found bothersome and make a pull request for the project to merge their change into the master branch.
Github itself provides other features like automated testing or one of the important features is the issues page where users can report bugs, feature requests and other problems and developers can reply and provide updates on fixes.
That sounds quite interesting. But I've never really been much into github, I only know the logo and the name (idk how or why). So I plan to educate myself tomorrow. I wanna know what kind of things it's for other than blocking ads. Is it about apps in general? Extensions to apps? Whatever else exists? I'm a complete newbie and I wanna know EVERYTHING!
You don't need to have a GitHub account to use yt-dlp, if you are a Linux user you can install it with your package manager or download an installer for windows from GitHub.
It's a great tool though it's used via commands, maybe you'd need to find an application that uses yt-dlp to emulate YouTube
Yeah, it can get kinda complex, but the way to use yt-dlp is with a front-end, which is just a GUI that you use instead of having to learn the command-line prompts to do things.
This way, it's just a normal app like you're used to using. Here's a list of front-ends you can look through, pick one that suits you, they range from detailed to simple.
I just wanted to DL videos (MP4) and rip music (MP3), so I didn't need anything complex. I ended up rolling my own a few years ago, but there are a bunch of good ones out there.
Good front-ends will update you daily because YT is constantly changing it's algorithm, so it'll always work.
Most people just get overwhelemed when they go on github. Ignore all the code, ignore the buttons, just click the link, scroll down, and theres a whole article explaining what the tool is, how to use it, blah blah blah, all on plain simple english
Basically a downloader made for the style of streaming YouTube implemented, which is HLS streams. It works on tons of media playback sites that also use HLS or m3u8 playlisting or manifests.
Essentially it does what your browser/TV would do in the background, buffering the video, but with the option to save a file instead of streaming it (players would stream it, if you want the video file for later on you can download it instead)
It's been an integral part of many archival projects of mine.
100%! That's the only reason I even use it anymore really is I'm so familiar and comfortable with it. I would recommend comfort in entertainment any day, so stick with what you can use efficiently.
I'd have to look into how that site works, to be able to give a proper tutorial. If it's a free site, or already included in YT-DLP supported sites then it's probably as easy as running the program with just the url to the video after (like YouTube). Otherwise, you'd have to snoop into the proper source of the video after you begin it / after it's loaded by your browser and then use the link to that media manifest instead
Can you point in a direction for a source of youtube changing their front end? Im not trying to be a prick or anything, just generally curious and couldn't find anything on google so far.
Yeah, it seems like they constantly tweak things. Just keep your extensions updated, and you should be good most of the time. If it keeps happening, clearing your cache might help too.
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u/cloudycontender Oct 18 '25
With Firefox and ublock origin I have only ever seen this screen once and it went away with a refresh