Ad-Free YouTube Viewing #

Sometimes YouTube videos are riddled with ads that make them hard to watch. To combat this issue, I created a small script that downloads the youtube video at the URL currently on your clipboard and plays it with your default video player. I made a hotkey to run this scipt in my window manager (QTile). So now when I want to watch a YouTube video I just need to copy the url to my clipboard and then hit “mod-y” on my keyboard (mod is the windows key)! This also has the added benefit of saving the video to my hard drive in case I want to watch it later when offline.

Categories: Lifestyle Optimizations