VerPoilu

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How did he prove he was actually himself? Seems like anyone could have done it with a bit of AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Duckduckgo's version is so much better. Unlimited aliases for free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's a trade-off, because they often also want their entire article to be crawled by Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

🧩 Puzzle #437 🤔 18 guesses ⏱️ 6m 20s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because of the CORS settings on Google's servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:

  • By opening the video in a new page/tab that only contains the video, with the YouTube player, which defeats the purpose a bit.
  • By installing an addon or an app on your device.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Fair enough, that's interesting. I assume this only applies to the non-web clients. On the web, it would not be possible. You can verify by looking at the outgoing network requests on this random video for example: https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qKMcKQCQxxI

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm pretty confident that you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Invidious and YouTube piped (and LibreTube) by default load the videos server-side, as opposed to GrayJay, NewPipe or Smarttube.

It has advantages (mostly that your IP address is not shared with YouTube, and it allows users from countries where YouTube is blocked to still access it) and inconvenients (much harder to keep up when YouTube actively seeks to block them).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smarttube next doesn't require rooting the device, it can be sideloaded. Sideloading is not very complicated. Google is not trying to block any sideloading (at the moment, at least).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

We don't see many over here in Europe. I guess real Americans need to do real American work!

Joke aside, vans usually do the job better than trucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.

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