YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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    3 months ago

    If you’ve ever used yt-dl, you’ll know that YT vids are all split into multiple files. Presumably, this is where the ads get injected.

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      3 months ago

      No, they’re not split. Each one of those results you get from yt-dlp is a different version of the same video. I.e. different resolutions, different codecs. Some of them are the audio, some of them are the video, but they’re not split.

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        3 months ago

        They are also that. But when you watch YouTube-dl download a video, it downloads several parts, then ffmpeg recombines them into a single output file.

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          That may be to speed up the download using multiple connections. Other downloaders do it on other sites as well, doesn’t mean the files are split on the server.

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            I mean, you can sit here and make up a bunch of different reasons, but the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.