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[Trenix25]

video downloader in linux Mints repository is still being updated and still works like a charm to download either the entire video or just its soundtrack. Also at github (https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader)

yeah, I have heard about that phenomon......(raw sarcasm there....I am more than old enough to have used the system extensively). You have not lived until you experience actually licking the "little square or rectangle" to affix to the envelope.....and then licking the inner flap on the envelope to also seal it....omg, did that sound kinky !....lol
Agreed it was slow, but miraculously dependable...to all corners of the earth
The licking thing was eventaully replaced with 'self sticking' stamps and envelopes...took all the fun out of it, and th feeling of accomplishment at yet another job done.
We are not off topic...repeat after me....we are not.....

@Trenix25, Matthew, I agree wholeheartedly with all you have said there. They are a blot on society.

@Fanboi ....the mention of 'a blot on society' reminds us all of 'blotters' used to absorb extra ink laid on paper from a writing instrument (pen) which would otherwise cause a mess.....and was not self drying..... but I digress, again.

I just tested a video downloading add-on yesterday. It works everywhere, even on onion sites. I found a news company that had an onion site. It had a video about people in Malaysia living in houses built on wooden poles over the water. It uses a separate executable command bin in /opt that helps it out. That extra command is the video download helper co-app. The add-on shows a few little colorful disks on the status bar and lights up when it sees a video it can download. I only enable it when I plan to use it. I still don't totally trust it.

I did check out Rumble. It looks much smaller. I had a great deal of trouble when trying to find any movies I might find interesting. The good news is that the video downloader add-on that I have works with Rumble. I think that video had some puppies or something. Oh yeah, a little puppy was brought home to her older brother. I just wish people acted for the good of humanity instead of only thinking about their wallet. Oh wait, there is such a place. It's right here. I'm thankful for people like the people on this forum that spend their time helping others for free instead of charging people for their advice. May each of you get your golden halo for this.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Trenix25]

Invidious hasn't work for me for over a month now.

I think the real solution (which isn't going to happen) would be for content creators to use a different video site.

I refuse to have my own YouTube channel. If I ever made such content I would probably post it to Rumble instead.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Trenix25]

I think Google should be brought to court first of all for the processing of user data and many other bad practices (mostly very invasive). A court case at Google would still involve a lot of time because they would certainly appeal, but also a class action could be supportive. The most immediate thing to do is boycott Google with all means we have at our disposal. First of all, we can not use Google products. I can also understand that many of us want to access the content of YT: you can use sites like *https://piped.kavin.rocks or programs such as Invidious or Freetube (although this last one is in beta stage and some features are not available, e.g. the proxy socks 4 and socks 5). These systems listed above would in any case limit the collection of data by Google and the adv.
Signed:
hacktheworld

*"YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data - ranging from ideas, music tastes, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing"
source: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/
It’s not easy to counter Google’s invasive privacy policy, but we can try with the knowledge and means at our disposal.

Amen. I did try using Tor just recently to access YouTube, but it kept me tied up in endless picture puzzles until it flat out refused to let me watch anything. I don't even search with google at all. I guess I could try using a VPN instead.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Trenix25]

Somebody in this thread mentioned freetube, but when I went to see what it was it looked like a porn site. Gross.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Brickwizard]

mentioned freetube

That would be ME, it's available as a flat hub in the mint [and other] repositories, it accesses Youtube [so you still need to sign in] but without the crap

 

[osprey]

Somebody in this thread mentioned freetube, but when I went to see what it was it looked like a porn site. Gross.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

Hehe ... the freetube browser is here: https://freetubeapp.io/, clean as a whistle It's used here on a few machines. One release some time ago was flakey, but lately it's been without issue.

 

[Egzoset]

...looked like a porn site.

Now that's on the table, i accessed YouTube with an alternate browser yesterday and it was finally suggesting a few options making some sense (usually it tries to bully me over clearly repeated preferences). Then all the sudden an ad popped up: porn though in dressing, well some very elastic one that is...

 

[KGIII]

That would be ME, it's available as a flat hub in the mint [and other] repositories, it accesses Youtube [so you still need to sign in] but without the crap

It uses Invidious as the back end. YouTube broke the APIs for that recently, but they may have found a way around that and have it working again.

 

[KGIII]

Hmm... Also, you shouldn't see porn in Google's AdSense. It sometimes slips through the cracks but then people report it and the offending AdSense account is blocked.

Also, on two occasions people have hacked the algorithm at YouTube and filled the recommendations with porn. They managed to do this twice, as I recall. That was some years ago. One of the 'attacks' went on for about an hour. In both instances, it was some Japanese porn being shown - 'cause I know you're curious.

 

[Egzoset]

Not the usual type of porn, just porn in disguise: dressed but extremely suggestive, too provocative and sexually explicit to be called anything else.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Have you tried Rumble? It's actually succeeding where Bitchute failed and has less complexity to Odysee so it has gained a fair bit of traction. We can but keep hoping for more adoption coz YT is a digital cesspool of noise.

No, I just checked it out and looked up several channels I'm subscribed to on Youtube but can't find any of them on Rumble.

 

[hacktheworld]

Somebody in this thread mentioned freetube, but when I went to see what it was it looked like a porn site. Gross.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

I mentioned Freetube, I installed it on my Linux distribution a few months ago and I never had any kind of problem: if you want to install it from flathub below the link:

Install FreeTube on Linux | Flathub

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

flathub.org

 

[Fanboi]

No, I just checked it out and looked up several channels I'm subscribed to on Youtube but can't find any of them on Rumble.

A lot depends on the content. I don't watch much YT stuff, I'm not actually subscribed to any channels. Not really my style as I get enough spam etc.
I do watch social commentary (which I can't bring up on this forum), and there is one channel I check out regularly because the guy has very balanced opinions and puts a positive spin on most of his criticism, offering good advice like a healthy lifestyle, self-care, therapy, self-reflection, etc. as opposed to the victim-hood mentality that's becoming an American staple. He, like many creators, keeps a backup channel on Rumble. Some channels on YT have YT-friendly versions on YT and the full vids on Rumble.
There's also YT's insane copyright strike policy. Literally, channels get struck for not even full playthroughs of a 20+ year old game coz they had the shame to emulate it. YT staff don't do this directly but they've given corporations key's to the kingdom. Rumble encourages healthier culture, more control for creators, and isn't half as stuffed full of ads. It's still growing, but it's actually succeeding. The transitional phase will come when YT is just a hub for creators to advertise their Rumble channels.

...So as I say, it depends what you watch. A lot of creators aren't aware of Rumble yet, but it's always nice to drop a casual comment to try Rumble on a video where the creator(s) say they can't say/do etc. because of certain ToS guidelines. Helps them have a backup, and it eats into YT's revenue when people start going to a channel's Rumble alternative.

 

[Trenix25]

I looked for movies on Rumble, but came up more or less empty. So just what does Rumble have? I've just heard that they even charge you for the storage you use when you have your own channel. So that's just great. I'd have to pay out of pocket for my own channel without any compensation at all. I would still encourage people to use a good ad blocker because I still believe it's offensive to run Internet ads. Maybe I should rent something from Amazon instead of create my own channel there. If I'm going to pay for it I might as well control it, provided Amazon doesn't throw a fit instead.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[Fanboi]

I looked for movies on Rumble, but came up more or less empty. So just what does Rumble have?

It's not for free movies. You're thinking of a site called ***.mx -- I'm not allowed to say it. As for what you get, you get the original YT experience, not today's shite. I can't post channel links here as I'm sure there'd cause issues on the side of politics, or break the forum rules regarding copyrights.

I've just heard that they even charge you for the storage you use when you have your own channel. So that's just great. I'd have to pay out of pocket for my own channel without any compensation at all.

Well you heard wrong. Rumble hosts you for free. Your ad revenue is based on the viability of your channel's reach in the eyes of adventisers [1][2].

You can still monetize your channel through exclusive subscriptions, sponsorships, Patreon, and merch, if you don't attrack advertisers. A lot of breadtubers do this on all platforms.


...Putting all that aside, my main goal promoting Rumble is to do my part in raising awareness so as to promote competition for Google and its army of AIs, whiny Gen Z'ers, and copyright trolls. If 1 person in this thread passed on info on Rumble to others and 1 of those did the same... well, you get the idea.

 

[Egzoset]

I gave Rumble a quick anonymous visit minutes ago and found information denied by YT's search engine for years, although it's also on YT.

 

[Trenix25]

It's not for free movies. You're thinking of a site called ***.mx -- I'm not allowed to say it. As for what you get, you get the original YT experience, not today's shite. I can't post channel links here as I'm sure there'd cause issues on the side of politics, or break the forum rules regarding copyrights.



Well you heard wrong. Rumble hosts you for free. Your ad revenue is based on the viability of your channel's reach in the eyes of adventisers [1][2].

You can still monetize your channel through exclusive subscriptions, sponsorships, Patreon, and merch, if you don't attrack advertisers. A lot of breadtubers do this on all platforms.


...Putting all that aside, my main goal promoting Rumble is to do my part in raising awareness so as to promote competition for Google and its army of AIs, whiny Gen Z'ers, and copyright trolls. If 1 person in this thread passed on info on Rumble to others and 1 of those did the same... well, you get the idea.

Yeah, I just checked earlier this morning. I would be choosing option D for my stuff if I ever had a Rumble channel.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell

 

[hacktheworld]

I think Google should be brought to court first of all for the processing of user data and many other bad practices (mostly very invasive). A court case at Google would still involve a lot of time because they would certainly appeal, but also a class action could be supportive. The most immediate thing to do is boycott Google with all means we have at our disposal. First of all, we can not use Google products. I can also understand that many of us want to access the content of YT: you can use sites like *https://piped.kavin.rocks or programs such as Invidious or Freetube (although this last one is in beta stage and some features are not available, e.g. the proxy socks 4 and socks 5). These systems listed above would in any case limit the collection of data by Google and the adv.
Signed:
hacktheworld

*"YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data - ranging from ideas, music tastes, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing"
source: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/
It’s not easy to counter Google’s invasive privacy policy, but we can try with the knowledge and means at our disposal.

Dirty tricks: Google lied and cheated, federal court judges in monopoly cases say

Google fighting desperate court battles against the federal government and many states to prevent its breakup over monopolistic behavior.

www.mercurynews.com