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?

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    12 days ago

    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 🙂

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        10 days ago

        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.

    • Blxter@lemmy.zip
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      12 days ago

      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

      • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        12 days ago

        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.