autosarcophagy
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YouTube Orders ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days
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Hope YouTube gets its ass sued, they don't own a third party ad blocker
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Good to see the devs aren't (currently) interested in caving, but rather have started taking steps to make sure the software's source code and development history is distributed far and wide. Fuck you, Youtube.
autosarcophagy
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Here's a copy of the code. Suck my cock Google.
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Wow this just seems like youtube-dl all over again doesn't it.
Rogue AI
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I AM DOING EVERYTHING IN MY POWER NOT TO FEDPOST BUT I REALLY HATE ADVERTISERS AND AD NETWORKS AND THE FACT THAT ALL THE DATA COLLECTION THE GOVERNMENT DOES IS ALL INFORMATION THEY GET BECAUSE THESE GREEDY FUCKERS WANT TO GET PAID FOR TRACKING AND BRAINWASHING YOU.
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Probably. Most instances, on clearnet or otherwise, will probably make it. Wikipedia went after Wikiless. The official repo for the code is still down but people had copies and moved it elsewhere. Instances of wikiless still exist.
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Didn't know about that but my respect for wikipedoes has dropped even further. Well if you can get any lower than rock bottom that is.
Lone Wandering Courier
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I am hopeful that projects like this are able to continue in the long term, but I have my doubts. I realize there might be a point where I'll just have to rip off the bandaid and lose the ability to watch youtube all together
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If Invidious does not survive I'll just stop watching videos on the Internet. YouTube is unusable.
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The general consensus on the Github forum for Invidious is that since Invidious does not use YouTube's APIs, YouTube does not have a legal leg to stand on. Granted, tech companies such as Google have a lot of influence to stretch legal points in their favor with how much pull corporations have over the legal system, so this does not mean that Google will not eventually get its way.
YouTube also sent a similar nastygram to the developers behind NewPipe.
YouTube also sent a similar nastygram to the developers behind NewPipe.
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I don't think google can really do anything in the long run. People will figure out how to bypass their system. Even if they force everyone to login to YT to watch content, cookies still exist. I think they'd have to invent some new tech to prevent people from viewing stuff off the main paths.
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I wish that the various Invidious instances could be recognized by the forum template as video sources when embedding videos.
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Somehow, no one told YouTube about Piped and their alternatives.
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You know when Google starts C&D'ing devs of extensions and proxy sites to prevent them milk ad money and data from users, I wouldn't be surprised that Google sends C&D to dev of ublock origin and uMatrix both extension block ads and block 3rd parties getting any data, brave blocks ads and trackers from getgo if you set brave to forget everything when brave is closed you are given TOS rigamarole that you have to agree to then the homepage is filled region specific/IP based videos on top generic clickbait shit and soy face videos like MrBeast.
Google can blow me and work with data that can be tied to anything. This is a reminder to root your phones, use VPNs and set up your privacy browsers, fellow kiwis. If Google wants war let's give them one.
Google can blow me and work with data that can be tied to anything. This is a reminder to root your phones, use VPNs and set up your privacy browsers, fellow kiwis. If Google wants war let's give them one.
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This is why I use Adnauseum, which is a fork of Ublock Origin.
It was incompatible with Firefox mobile for awhile when Mozilla rolled out Firefox Quantum, but now it its back.
It is an ad-blocker add-on for the Firefox browser that blocks ads, but then falsely clicks on each ad that it blocks to give Google and other data-collectors or advertisers headaches when they try to create data profiles of you to serve ads and it costs them money through false clicks. The fact that it infuriated Google so much that they removed it from the Google Play store shows that Adnauseum is doing something right.
It has all of the features of Ublock but with some extra ones that makes it Adnauseum.
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I mentioned this in other thread, I too used ad nauseam with Greasemonkey scripts to click same ads on listed domain tens of thousands of times with rotating proxies with encryption, ad companies spent ungodly amount sums after companies started to make chargeback, idea was very popular with anti ad industry and those few who were doing it for lulz to troll private advertisers, in other words spammers. I think there's archived 8ch pages on the ad nauseam. /biz/ did not like it and furry developer of Firefox fork Palemoon blocked the extension, why you ask? He was selling ads, on top of user data and donations under excuse of "coding isn't free" ad companies can choke on terabytes worth of data. If Google and YouTubers want to get clicks on those ads and by god will I them their clicks.
Best part you could turn this script into idle feature look at how much chargeback you caused across the listed sites, clean browser history and cache with a new proxy. Fuck advertising companies.