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rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity
me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity
rush, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers You lose: Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions) Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don’t have a list of instances with their max resolutions) The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate probably more random stuff idk
You lose:
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers please read up on threat models. If you need that amount of privacy/security that’s fine, but many don’t.
please read up on threat models. If you need that amount of privacy/security that’s fine, but many don’t.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers It doesn’t use the APIs at all, which is also why Google can’t Cease & Desist them for not complying with API terms
It doesn’t use the APIs at all, which is also why Google can’t Cease & Desist them for not complying with API terms
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers It works well, services not working is more about websites trying to block these tools, and I try to be understanding of the issues.
It works well, services not working is more about websites trying to block these tools, and I try to be understanding of the issues.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers Librewolf is Firefox configured with many privacy-related settings out of the box, uBlock Origin and it clears all data on exit by default.
Librewolf is Firefox configured with many privacy-related settings out of the box, uBlock Origin and it clears all data on exit by default.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers Piped.video is the official instance, but there’s more piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de have relatively high uptime and quick fixes in my experience.
Piped.video is the official instance, but there’s more
piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de have relatively high uptime and quick fixes in my experience.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers Absolutely agreed, I would love for peertube to take off
Absolutely agreed, I would love for peertube to take off
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers Currently that is quite hard, because despite YouTube being an utterly insane business model it has prevailed so far. I would love for an alternative, I personally really like PeerTube and the Fediverse in general, but mass adoption ain’t there yet :(
Currently that is quite hard, because despite YouTube being an utterly insane business model it has prevailed so far.
I would love for an alternative, I personally really like PeerTube and the Fediverse in general, but mass adoption ain’t there yet :(
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers The extension menu has “redirect” and “back to original” buttons (or something similar, can’t check cuz I’m on mobile rn) You could use this to visit the homepage and then let new tabs/videos redirect
The extension menu has “redirect” and “back to original” buttons (or something similar, can’t check cuz I’m on mobile rn)
You could use this to visit the homepage and then let new tabs/videos redirect
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers uBlock Origin’s default lists with both Firefox and uBO being on their latest is currently undetected. By that I mean they’ve already released fixes.
uBlock Origin’s default lists with both Firefox and uBO being on their latest is currently undetected. By that I mean they’ve already released fixes.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers weird, my formatting might be messed up Try again in a bit, I’ve tried to fix it :)
weird, my formatting might be messed up
Try again in a bit, I’ve tried to fix it :)
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers No, but subscriptions can be imported manually. The point is to not load tracking tech YouTube ships with as well as staying relatively anonymous.
No, but subscriptions can be imported manually.
The point is to not load tracking tech YouTube ships with as well as staying relatively anonymous.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers why would I put a hexbear link when I’m on lemm.ee? 🤔 I’d double-check this isn’t an issue on your end, I can’t reproduce it here.
why would I put a hexbear link when I’m on lemm.ee? 🤔
I’d double-check this isn’t an issue on your end, I can’t reproduce it here.
rush, 1 year ago to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers Both take resolutions and streams directly from YouTube, my guess is that it may vary a bit depending on the settings the instance host set.
Both take resolutions and streams directly from YouTube, my guess is that it may vary a bit depending on the settings the instance host set.