How can one consume media these days with any sort of privacy?
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Install jellyfin on your computer, Buy second hand DVDs from people who are selling them, rip them onto your PC.
That's a good strategy if you're into movies but I'm looking for more DIY/repair videos, mostly about tech.
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You should check out..
Particularly their Grayjay app, but definitely check out their other privacy focused projects as well.
Great, thank you.
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Youtube doesn’t work when not signed into a Google account, or if one is connected to a VPN.
Youtube works fine without an account? I just checked. It also works fine with a VPN, again I just checked. Maybe this is a country thing, or something with your browser?
What's your browser setup if you don't mind sharing?
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What's your browser setup if you don't mind sharing?
Firefox. I used an incognito tab, and I have all extensions turned off since I mostly use incognito to check if they're fucking with something.
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That's a good strategy if you're into movies but I'm looking for more DIY/repair videos, mostly about tech.
I have been tossing around the idea of hosting a peertube instance for DIY.
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You should check out..
Particularly their Grayjay app, but definitely check out their other privacy focused projects as well.
Futo has a giant list of usefule stuff! Thanks for sharing! I had no idea this existed!
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With a privacy protecting setup, the mainstream internet is almost unusable. To sign up for social media or even a gmail account, one has to provide a phone number for verification. Youtube doesn’t work when not signed into a Google account, or if one is connected to a VPN. Even downloader programs like yt-dlp and freyr have been rendered useless by the strict access controls of the major platforms. There is a vast amount of community, DIY, and educational material of all sorts behind these platform walls, so how can someone who doesn’t want to be tracked access any of it these days?
There are alternatives like archive.org and peertube which are wonderful but have nowhere near the amount of content that people have been uploading to YouTube over the years. For example, if I need to fix a washing machine and there is a tutorial on YouTube, how can I see it while still preserving a modicum of privacy online?
I'm surprised that no one mentioned NewPipe
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I dont have that issue. Most Mullvad servers work for me on Youtube via Tubular (Newpipe). If it doesnt work I just change servers.
Same here. Watching YT is fine (logged in or not), but using yt-dlp doesn’t work. I have to run a split tunnel with my terminal to do this.
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You should check out..
Particularly their Grayjay app, but definitely check out their other privacy focused projects as well.
I use their Keyboard as well as their Grayjay app for YouTube. Amazing shit. And open source. People please donate if you can.
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I'm surprised that no one mentioned NewPipe
I'd never heard of it, but I appreciate your comment, thank you.
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Install jellyfin on your computer, Buy second hand DVDs from people who are selling them, rip them onto your PC.
I boosted my self-hosted movie collection with about 800 DVDs I bought off a guy for something like $100
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I have been tossing around the idea of hosting a peertube instance for DIY.
Would it be possible to host all the terabytes of DIY videos that are on YouTube currently or would it be more of a "start from scratch" situation? And as an aside- is it legal to do so or is there an issue with copyright and ownership? I doubt that the videos on YouTube belong to the creators but hopefully I'm wrong.
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Firefox. I used an incognito tab, and I have all extensions turned off since I mostly use incognito to check if they're fucking with something.
Good idea but doesn't that expose you to tracking via browser fingerprint?
