rush

@rush@lemm.ee

17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.

I’m almost positive I’m autistic and/or have ADHD.

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rush,

lol that sounds like an existing old-YouTube bug that ReVanced also suffered of a while ago.

You’d wanna use an up-to-date version, but that’s hard on such an old android version

I’d suggest - even tho it isn’t 1:1 the same - that you export your subscriptions from Google and import them either into LibreTube (closer to the official YT app) or NewPipe.

Because LibreTube uses the (awesome) Piped Project to load videos and info, you can also sync data using it and your favourite piped instance. (piped.video, piped.smnz.de, piped.adminforge.de are personal recommendations)

rush,

newpipe does YouTube, SoundCloud, Peertube, and Bandcamp. NewPipe isn’t YouTube-Only.

rush,

there could be a patchset made with ReVanced-CLI. It’s an easy bypass if you know a bit of Java/Kotlin, even with release APKs

rush,

piped.smnz.de and piped.adminforge.de have worked well for me so far. Relatively quick updates and bugfixes :)

rush,

Make sure you really only selected YouTube subs, otherwise they’ll give you like 6 50gb ZIP Files (depending on how much they know about you 😉)

rush,

Judging from how many SWEs are in the US, its basically this or loose your job. And that’d be a bit bad because of how many different pricing crisis there are at the moment.

rush,

I would wager a guess and say that many joined long before they got this bad, probably because back then their visions and values were a lot more aligned

Nowadays I rarely see more than hectic startups and Big Tech, both of which have massive downsides which affect people outside of their field too.

Additionally, especially at the HQs of Google and others, many SWEs live in vans on the street because rent is too high, they cannot just work somewhere else as that won’t actually change the situation

rush,

Eh, the devs probably don’t want this either, only because it means they’ll keep their job are they doing this

I vote for making the executives’ lives hell instead

rush,

What I like to do is export my subscriptions using Google’s data export page, and then import it into a Piped instance, in my case piped.adminforge.de or piped.smnz.de

rush,

Web

For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)

NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.

Android

On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.

NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.

iOS

On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).

NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.

Desktop

On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).

NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.

rush,

If I recall right, the settings have an option to proxy videos too.

New anti-VPN measures at BBC

Today, for the first time, I couldn’t use iplayer. As usual, I switched country to UK, cleared browsing data, deleted everything from temp app data file before going there. Was using Firefox. Tried same procedure with Epic browser. Same result. Chatted with Nord support. They wanted screenshots of results from dnsleaktest dot...

rush,

The “Dark Net” generally is still HTTP(s) with extra layers on-top, e.g the Tor Network or I2P

We’re more likely looking at something like Gemini

rush,

I agree! It’s actually it’s own protocol, being built on top of the IP (internet protocol) ofc

The webpages are essentially pure text. No JS, and everything is designed to be super privacy-friendly. Gemini is like the pinnacle of the SmallWeb

rush,

I use sponsorblock not for sponsors, but for things like non-music parts of MVs or interaction reminders tbh

rush,

They will actually, as they’re looking for specific things to be blocked/altered using JavaScript that is easily affected by enabling certain custom lists. In case you don’t believe me, you can look on uBO’s official statement regarding this.

rush,

me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity

rush, (edited )

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
rush,

weird, my formatting might be messed up

Try again in a bit, I’ve tried to fix it :)

rush,

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,

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,

got our pickaxe swinging from side to side

rush,

A piece of software that anyone can host on the internet which allows you and others to watch YouTube without loading their original page full of ads and anti-features, whilst also allowing you to have a certain level of anonymity and improved privacy.

(the anonymity comes from collective anonymity, where you’re harder to make out in the crowd, as YouTube only sees a bunch of people watching a bunch of random videos, but not who is watching)

[discussion]: regarding the best OS for a pirate

This post started out as a question, but throughout two days of googling it became this compilation of links. I will tell you everything worth mention that I found, share my plan with you, and expect some critics (for the infos of course, please not for the silly hyperactivity of my ADHD brain over such a trivial matter 🥲)....

rush,

If Linux broke that often (in comparison to windows), many of your devices and most of the internet wouldn’t run Linux.

(other than windows PCs and maybe MacOS devices)

rush,

by “most of the internet” I mean a HUGE majority of the websites you interact with being hosted on servers that run, you guessed it, Linux. Additionally, your WiFi router probably runs linux, almost any non-iPhone runs Linux, IOT devices (say, security cameras) usually run Linux, and Linux is even on Mars.

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