SaltySalamander

100%.

Literally fuck-all.

fuck American tech for one again operating in a country and refusing to follow their laws

Fuck government overreach. And fuck anyone defending it.

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gaytheist*

I had the exact same thoughts when I first started seeing this story pop up on my news feeds. Like, this person will see the inside of a prison cell for this, especially given the type of content hosted and the current make-up of the Justice Dept. What they did was, quite literally, cyber-terrorism. Hope it was worth it, I guess, given that these sites are all back online now like it never happened.

100%

Specifically referring to Linus’s fan-girling all over Linus.

I think I made it 5 minutes. Linus (S) can’t be professional to save his life.

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You must have a piss-poor adblocker.

Youtube doesn’t let you download the videos directly. If they did, you’d be right. The fact that the original yt-dl was shut down by Youtube kinda disproves your point all by itself.

it downloads them directly from YouTube

Thus, pirating them. More or less by the same method that is used to download every single WEB-DL movie/episode you see on torrent sites.

The front page is a direct reflection of the content you engage with.

It’d be real nice if people would actually use their brains and realize this.

How have you never heard of yt-dlp?

Incognito window =)

Running personalDNSFilter (whole phone, non-root adblocker) blocks ads just fine for me in the official unmodified Youtube app.

Chrome + Ublock Origin Lite also still works, fyi.

Pretty easy to know, in fact. Same way Netflix, Disney, or HBO knows. Same account, accessed simultaneously from two distinct IP addresses. Not really rocket surgery.