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They can try to block crawlers all they want

They will not succeed without restricting access to Reddit to an unusable degree, since crawlers can be coded to imitate real users close enough. Combine that with enough proxies and they can’t do jack shit

Also you could get arround the Referer header quite easily via redirects (unless Reddit went ahead and used a Whitelist for those, which again would be a very stupid decision) and some more methods


Easiest way is to download all and let something like dupeGuru do the rest

Afaik google makes that extremely annoying and they strip your images metadata when getting them from takeout so keep that in mind

Also, for your own good create a backup before deduplicating, just in case you do something wrong (this also let’s you experiment with your duplicate file finder of choice without having to be scared about fucking up)


I don’t think google can win this without serverely limiting access to Youtube


True, that guy seems like a jerk

Also, if you only want the highest quality using the command line version is easy as running

yt-dlp “link”

for example:

yt-dlp “https://m.youtube.com/watchv=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Although it needs ffmpeg too for certain websites that have seperate audio and video streams. Maybe that’s why your previous experiences have been wonky


For duplicates dupeGuru’s Music Mode should suffice (don’t be overly aggressive when batch deleting files!)

Then tag and sort them with MusicBrainz Picard (again, take it slow. Picard is great and all but not every automated match is correct and I always check mine if they’re correct)

After doing that start taking notes while listening to your Music in case you detect something is wrong (missed duplicate, wrong/partial metadata, etc) which allows you to fix these errors later on

I’d also recommend you do backups along the way because dupeGurus and Picards changes can’t be undone and as a beginner you’re likely to do mistakes till your accustomed to the process

That’s what I did and will continue to do with my 1500 songs (for now)

I also prefer to sync my music from my PC to my phone via rsync (any sync application should suffice). But that’s just me, because imo offline playback is the way to go


That’s a wtf for you? You must be new to the internet then


For rooted phones:

There is Pixelify Magisk module

And also PixelSpoof for Magisk, although this one seems quite unknown.

As always be careful what Magisk modules you install, malicious ones can fuck you up badly. Personally I’d try Pixelify (seems legit enough) and wouldn’t touch the other with a 3 foot pole. You do you though


Why is it that smaller people can do seemingly obvious features like custom user-controlled site rankings, but the big players are completely incapable of that?

Because that would give control to the user. And we all know they hate us having that because they can’t shove their shit down our throats then





You’re probably out of luck. Only thing you can do is download the 4k version in any language, get the german audio from somewhore else and splice them togetherr



ProtonVPN also provides Wireguard config files if you don’t want to use their shitty python based GUI. Supports port forwarding aswell, althought it sucks to set up and requires to manually disable ipv6 support


Wayland is still horrible on nVidia cards

So, not as dead as you think. Also many apps still run through xwayland


Yeah, I noticed that it has consistently picked the best format without me having to tell it. I just run the -F first, so I can see if that’s true by looking at the available formats and looking at what is actually downloaded. I’m not at the point where I’ll just trust it yet.

Funnily enough that’s how I did it at first too. It’s good that you’re willing to put this much effort into understanding, confirming and improving things. Keep doing it like this and you’ll surely keep improving as long and as much as you want to :)


Your first command listing the formats is “useless”, depending on what you define the best quality is. yt-dlp orders the output by it’s format selection (-f argument) which is bestvideo*+bestaudio/best by default which also gets affected by the format sorting (-S / --formart-sort). By default av1 use is discouraged over vp9 so I’d highly recommend you look into them if you really want to make sure it’ll downlad the best quality ones. In my experience the default settings are really good, except some fringe cases (for example if you’d rather download av1 encoded videos). Keep in mind though most digital stuff still runs h264/h265 for compatibility reasons

Have fun learning and don’t forget to look over the yt-dlp ReadMe on github! It has all the information you’ll ever need and much more :)



You didn’t ask me but possible reasons are:

  • Only exposing Wireguard leaves your server with minimal attack surface
  • Domains cost money
  • Can make Firewall management a whole lot easier
  • No need to encrypt each service manually


Firesticks use a hardcoded backup DNS which can’t be changed/disabled without root access. This renders DNS level blocking useless because they’ll just use their backup DNS if your DNS resolves to 127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0


I get little micro-stutters every few seconds

Sounds like your Video file might be to blame. Does it always happen at the same time stamps? Maybe try watching it locally, does it happen there aswell?


That’s not true, youtube uses opus with vbr up to 160kpbs without premium. Premium gets 256kbps aac. 320kbps with opus is overkill

Imo Yt Music has way better quality than atleast Spotify and it has almost everything you’d ever need



Nope, GreenLuma can’t download games anymore. That got fixed in 2013, even if you add them manually multiplayer won’t work if it’s using the Steam Servers


I’d recommend the Stealth mode installation by dropping the User32.dll into the Steam directory

To answer your edit: It depends. Some DLC need to be downloaded seperately, you need to install those manually (most are downloaded with the base game in my experience). cs.rin.ru has many ressources on how to do that. You’d have to do that for CreamAPI aswell though. Adding non owned games is pretty much useless imo because you only get cloudsaves and achievement support iirc, you’d be better of playing a cracked version without Steams DRM instead.

The best thing about GreenLuma is it’s Family Sharing Restrictions bypass though. If you share libraries with some friends you can play almost everything together with only one license


Get GreenLuma (found on cs.rin.ru) instead, it doesn’t modify game files. It works by injecting itself into the steam client

Some games have server sided dlc checks though, so keep that in mind


The app is adfree and not spammy. Can’t talk about the Website though, I haven’t browsed the internet without good content blockers for the last decade


This website has all the infos you need. You probably won’t get anymore spoonfed than this, good luck :)


This should be the real one: https://www.luckypatchers.com/

Beware fake download ads though (I’ve never seen any of those, but people without uBlock might)


Try different things in the selection dialogue before patching.

If you have root you could install Modded Google Play in Lucky Patcher to automatically succeed License checks

Mods also exist to crack apps, Mobilism is a good site but be careful what you download from whom


You can crack most apps using Lucky Patcher

Make sure you get it from the official website though


Sideberry is really good and can do all of that and much more. You need to have a custom userChrome.css to hide the native tab bar though


I’m sorry, I misread your question. --cookies requires you to be logged in

Why not use TwitchNoSub in combination with Video DownloadHelper?

I always use the download helper to get the Video urls and then download them via yt-dlp