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This writer is getting so fed up with ads on YouTube, that he’s
considering ... paying them money <https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/youtube-rolls-out-annoying-unskippable-ads/>.

YouTube downloader programs do exist. They are primarily written as command-line tools. GUI versions appear every now and then, but my
impression is that those are not as well-maintained as the underlying command-line tools. So those who stick to the GUIs inevitably end up
with out-of-date code that no longer works when YouTube does its next
update.
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