What are the best piracy tips/tricks. I host most of my own media, but I want to be able to read paywalled news articles, watch youtube w/o ads am generally into privacy, etc.
What are your best practices?
For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You’ll never need to log into Youtube again. And it’s not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂
Have a look at Grayjay for youtube and other video sites.
You’ll never need to log into Youtube again
Well, I’ve used Newpipe for the longest time but depending on your internet connection / CGNAT’ed or, even using a VPN means it won’t work unless you do sign in :/
Cannot confirm, in my usage I have never encountered this. I use Newpipe almost daily and do not have a YT login.
Occasionally Google has done something (deliberately or coincidentally) to limit third party app access, but that’s usually worked around very quickly.
Plenty of others can confirm
https://www.google.com/search?q=please+sign+in+bot+YouTube&udm=14
It’s been going on for months, especially VPN users.
Okay, I’ll click your Google link —
It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search
— and certainly none mentioning Newpipe 🤷
Strange, I’m getting pages and pages of links about third party clients barfing
https://files.catbox.moe/f803x6.jpg
Maybe it’s that “cleaner Google” url hack (udm=14) that’s reallllly cleaning it up for ye?
Or just Google doing their best filter bubble. I don’t think they have any useable info on me any more, haven’t used their search for ages.
Either way, I’ll take your word for it and just thank my lucky star that I can continue to use Newpipe without problems.
IMO blocking ads is a form of piracy. You are circumventing there form (ads) of monetization. But yea Newpipe is great I personally use Tubular
Did you enter into a contract saying you must watch ads to use the service? Is ad blocking against ToS? I don’t think either are true, and a “click to consent” isn’t legally binding. Either way, I will never not block ads as it is important from a privacy and cyber security perspective.
Enter a contract no… you also don’t ‘enter a contract’ when you buy a dvd either or watch in theaters etc (no idea about streaming service tbh). As for ToS yes https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en
When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.
In that case it is a ToS violation, not piracy. You aren’t paying anything, nor does google lose any money since they have been already paid. We would have to stretch the definition of piracy to include other ToS violations since it is not a financial lose.
Let’s extend the scenario. If YouTube ToS required you to click every ad to use their service, would it be piracy if someone doesnt follow those instructions? I think it would be a ToS violation, but what damages could Google even seek?
I hear people sometimes mention that “Google needs to pay somehow to keep YouTube running.” I have no sympathy for Google since they conspired to intentionally push out other video hosting platforms to create monopoly on the market. It is their own fault that videos aren’t more spread out among providers.
How would you even pirate YouTube anyways?
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The apps are different on iOS bc of apple’s walled garden. For example, NewPipe (in the other comment) is a music app on iOS and I didn’t know about it before. The browser is locked to Safari or skins of safari, so extensions are pretty limited. Graphene gives a lot more options so I’m looking for those RE: piracy.
Ah, thanks for explaining. Guess I’m just old. I do my piracy on a regular computer.
Like with one of those pads with the clickly letters like gamers use?
They’re awesome. There are foldable ones which you can carry around. Or big ones that you don’t even need to charge, because they’re directly hooked to the power grid. You don’t need to hold them, because they sit on the table. Have about 105 separate keys (ever wondered what your 8 other fingers are for?), a mega large screen… Mine even has 2 screens, I can open like 5 apps at the same time! They have headphone jacks, sd-slots, multiple(!) charging ports which you can use for other things than charging… almost endless storage… And there are very smooth operating systems available, which don’t even lock you into Google or Apple’s ecosystem… I really like them!
Best thing is, they won’t even drop out of cellphone coverage when you go grocery shopping. You’ll just leave them at home and they keep on downloading. Once you return, you might have all bad sitcoms of the 90s saved on them.
Don’t you miss them when you leave them at home? That part sounds sad.
The big one is fine. I think it’s already grown up. And does most of the chores around. And the small one: I tend to bring it with me. I carry it in my backpack, especially to some nerd activities. I don’t think there is any rivalry. They’re individuals and I think my machines all feel my love and affection. No, I don’t miss them in day to day life. We’ll meet each afternoon anyways and I think some leeway is healthy. But that changes if I go on vacation for a week. I sometimes really miss them when I’m in a different city for several days… Idk. Seems one-sided anyways, because they then just sleep all day like a cat and don’t really mind my absence.
Context? Graphene related advice?
Not graphene specific but nzb360 is a great paid app for managing your arr stack that isn’t available on iOS & Well worth the price imo. Obtanium for GitHub apps, shizuku can do some cool stuff that would ordinarily require root, revanced manger for youtube if your still using Google or newpipe from fdroid if not. Use the aurora store to avoid Google play. Seeker is an android based soulseek client on fdroid for music. That’s all I can think of for now.
The ultimate in privacy for YouTube is Invidious https://invidious.io/, which fully proxies your videos from YouTube through an Invidious server. Every once in a while YouTube will get the upper hand and figure out how to fingerprint and block the servers, but so far the community has always figured out how to circumvent it. One advantage is that you can feasibly use a VPN with Invidious; without it, you have to keep hopping from VPN server to VPN server until you find one YouTube hasn’t already blocked, especially on a large public VPN like ProtonVPN. This applies to NewPipe as well, since NewPipe still tries to talk to YouTube directly as far as I understand. On Android I use Clipious as the app to access the Invidious servers.
pro-tip: self-host invidious if u want the utmost
That is not ideal, especially if you will be the only one using it. If you are using it alone, YouTube will still be able to profile you, as all the videos will be watched by a single server. It would be just like using YouTube.com with a VPN. If you are self-hosting and a few people will use it, YouTube won’t be able to profile everyone, as it will think all the videos are being watched by a single person.
Don’t go with fdroid. Go with Obtainium. You can download apps directly from Github and it updates automatically. Smaller attack surface and it’s one less hoop to jump through.
Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.
The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)
The f-droid team goes through the source code and builds the app themselves before publishing. I think it’s better to trust them. Obtanium is great, but only if the app is not on f-droid or f-droid is lagging behind updates.
