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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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I believe there will always be a way to watch these videos ad-free. I can't imagine they will restructure the video serving infrastructure to force ads in a way that can't be blocked as there is so many devices and official YouTube clients (gaming consoles, Smart TVs, etc) that would have to be updated. However, I do think they might make it more difficult.
youtube-dl is the way to go. One thing you could do is keep a text file containing video IDs that you have already downloaded and before downloading a new video and append the new video ID to the list. Another way is you could also set the file name to the video ID to and check if it exists before downloading as well.