starman@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoVLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streamingnews.itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkVLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streamingnews.itsfoss.comstarman@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarerequiem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoSlightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”
minus-squareBreakDecks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoVery generous of you to assume that adding native support for advertising is a move to protect users from advertising…
minus-squareGabu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoYou can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC…
Slightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”
Very generous of you to assume that adding native support for advertising is a move to protect users from advertising…
Now you put it that way… 😃
You can already watch youtube ad-free with VLC…
That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know!