The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
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The internet can suck my dick.
And my ass.
And my fuck.
And my axe.
Damn I got a lotta big meals aheada me...
Oh, please, tell me, ServeTheBeam, how exactly does one suck a fuck?
Dear God the internet has come a long way. In my day the best we could do was watch videos of porn stars sucking the dicks of other porn stars!
Remember when we were told not to give out personal details to websites?
Yea, I can remember when the advice was to create a "handle" and never use your real details.
Seems like it was yesterday.
Wait… it WAS yesterday!
Oh yes, yesterday, that was when my troubles seemed so far away.
I believe in yesterday.
And specifically because if you shared those details, you ran a risk that they were going to fall into the hands of bad actors who would cause you harm.
Which is the exact same risk that still exists today, with only the difference that more often all the time the bad actors are governments and corporations.
No it doesnt. Governments want to so you can't say whatever you want. So you dont get up with a bunch of other citizens and start asking questions or having thoughts of your own.
Well, Google’s attempt to take away our cookies failed….
I've been wondering how long I'll be able to avoid this.
I pirate whatever I can and not really on main stream social.
I've noticed it's become increasingly harder to even watch Youtube w/o signing in to give me a "better experience" when I'm using a VPN. LOL, I don't WANT to fucking log in just to watch a video, guys, but of course Google knows that...
For now, it seems to work by using Invidious while on Firefox + VPN. But this seems extremely fragile and prone to breakage.
Thing is, now is not the time (not that it ever was) to let gigantic megacorps scoop up all your data so that if it becomes completely evil after a takeover from someone with a political agenda (imagine another fElon taking over Google's data, for example) they can target you for whatever made-up bullshit reasons.
I'd recommend just using yt-dlp and your favorite video player.
MPV will also automatically invoke it from the command line if you do
mpv <youtube URL>but you'll need to turn your cache settings way up if you want any seeking as data is only cached on the MPV side.There's the FreeTube and GrayJay desktop & mobile apps, as well as PipePipe, NewPipe, and LibreTube for mobile exclusively.
Ive had freetube and libretube break more often than naught lately. Having to switch vpn servers and invidious instances is a pain. Thanks google!
They should work fine without a VPN if that's any consolation. Its what I do when they block more than 2 servers in a row because I can't be bothered
Makes sense, I just hate not having it on
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