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That’s right, but from a user data perspective, Google does not know that you are the one watching the video, so it cannot sell your data.



Userscript recommendations?
I recently started using Violentmonkey and there are hundreds of absolutely great scripts like some that help you go straight to the download link instead of shorteners (very common on pirate sites), and there are also some scripts for downloading music from Spotify (I guess using Youtube), but I hardly know any more, anyone know of some scripts for general use or useful for pirating?
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Nah, I personally found the gameplay fun, but that just my own opinion.






I personally don’t use Youtube (I prefer using Libredirect with Piped/Invidious) but I tried Youtube on Firefox with UBlock and I didn’t have any problem. This might sound dumb but what filters do you use on UBlock? I have read that turning on some filters would help with this but I’m not sure.


I been using Kotaksu and so far I love it, actually some of the manga sites that went shut down on Tachiyomi are available there, for now.


You can use any open source firewall app available on F-Droid, such as Rethink DNS. The way that it works it’s as a VPN blocking outbout/inbout connections.


I have been using modded/unlocked apps for years from Mobilism and until this day I haven’t been infected with any virus as far as I know, just stick with trusted modders such as Derren or Balatan.

If you are interested, Mobilism is on the Megathread.


Well, in first place being this a Piracy community, from my own experience I can tell you that most cracked games have trackers and that shit removed by the modder, so you can considered them “privacy respected” at some point, yep, even Minecraft.

And another option is using the IzzyOnDroid repo, it have alot of games that aren’t on F-Droid main repo.


At first I simply used Syncthing to sync the directories where the pictures from my phone are stored in a directory on a HDD on my PC, but then I got tired up with the constant problems and started using ente.io, although you can also use Filen.io (although the photos are not uploaded automatically, you must enter the app) or some instance of Nextcloud, although Ente is the best option.


Does uBlock allow to skip any song or just disable ads?

And if the answer is yes, how is that even possible? Doesn’t that require a membership?


Thanks for the answer, some of the extensions you said actually had not been mentioned.

I know this question is out of the scope of this post at first, but what manga do you recommend? I know it’s something super offtopic but honestly Tachiyomi (with the right extensions) has a huge selection of manga, and I find it interesting to start reading manga.

I haven’t read manga for years and I barely watch anime sometimes, but I like anime (and consequently, manga) like Berserk, Fairy Tail, Full Metal Alchemist, One Punch Man, etc.


Mangadex works great, I will try the others to see if they also have as good results.




I have no problem with NSFW content, since I won’t see it so I don’t care that it’s there. In general there are so many extensions that I just wanted some “general extension” that has everything, so I asked here because I installed about 15 and most of them had only NSFW content or not work at all, so maybe someone here knew more than me.


  1. Yes, only manga.
  2. I have no problem if the extension has NSFW mixed with SFW, the problem is that most of them I tried only had weird hentai Pokemon manga. So yes!

Which are the best SFW extensions for Tachiyomi?
I know this is not a Christian community, but I recently discovered Tachiyomi looking for alternatives to Saikou and a good alternative to read manga (which I don't do much, but it makes me curious) is Tachiyomi and although installing extensions is really simple the vast majority have NSFW content (or hentai?) and Jesus, I want to look for Pokemon manga and if I install extensions randomly I end up finding things I'd rather not have seen before, and many SFW extensions "don't work" or give an error that something went wrong.
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Unfortunately that’s the point of FreeTube precisely, that’s why it uses libre instances like Piped or Invidious, I think what you mention is impossible.

The closest thing you can use is ReVanced, which is Youtube but without ads, keeping the analytics and recommendations.


It’s not misspelled, it’s literally the Telegraph (not Telegram) of Empress. Search the pinned messages in the Empress chat.

Nvm, I’ll DM you the link.


It would be great some kind of sticker or banner by release that says “Steam Deck/Linux verified”, maybe the users themselves are the ones who comment if it is compatible or not and the banner is added.


Please please prioritize Empress releases that usually work on Linux and on Windows, and a Windows user would not see the slightest difference.

I mean, if you go to Steamrip and download FH6 for SOME REASON it doesn’t run on Linux but on Windows, but if you download FH6 directly from the Empress Telegraph it works on both Linux and Windows, and Windows users don’t notice a difference


For those who pirate songs, how do you discover new music?
I know the question is rather awkward at first and I am possibly overlooking something, but I would like to know something I really don't understand. In the past I have used modified versions of Spotify and they are fine but obviously no modified version allows you to download songs because it is a premium function at server level and honestly I would like to have my songs on my device, so if I don't have internet I can still listen to them. After those modified versions of Spotify, I have used apps like ViMusic, Spotube and SimpMusic which are basically Youtube Music apps but without ads and with more features, including downloading music, the problem is that they do that at the level of the app itself, not in a separate file. And I love these apps and I can not recommend them enough but my phone is a little old and I see 0 need to change it since I use it for basics usage and although this can sound dumb the interface of these apps are full of blur and unnecessary effects that make my device slow, including Spotify, and I don't like Spotify Lite because I feel it is a very trimmed version of Spotify. So this is where my question comes in, for those who exclusively download music, how do you discover new songs? Spotify's recommendation system is great and Youtube's radio mode is very good but obviously I need to use Spotify or Youtube Music to use it and I prefer to use light apps for local playback because of what I already mentioned. Edit: Thanks for all the recommendations! I never thought this post would get so many answers and there are too many comments to answer one by one, but I admit that the old-school method of reading blogs or magazines works well, and I also like the idea of sites like Last.fm or discogs.
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Sounds pretty interesting, definitely I’m gonna try it up.


In all my years of pirating on Linux is the first time I’ve heard of this tool, could you give a brief description of it? Their Github isn’t entirely clear and his website is completely in Russian.


Yes, that’s why I mentioned that it’s based on Prism Launcher. I wonder who still use PolyMC.


PollyMC is a Prism Launcher fork but with “offline mode” and works perfectly on my opinion. I recommend downloading the flatpak version as the appimage asks you for certain versions of Java that are easy to install but sometimes gets a little complicated.

And yes, Micro$hit can eat shit. I personally bought Minecraft but on the day I was forced to migrate my Mojang account to a Micro$oft account with the threat that “If I don’t do it I’ll lose access to my game” I delete my Mojang account and use PollyMC since.



I know I ask a while after but I have your answer in mind for days and I have a somewhat subjective question: How many seeders can be considered few seeders? For example, right now I downloaded the latest Garuda Linux ISO and it has 30 seeders (the Gnome version) but with what you said I really don’t see the need to seed this because I’m going to seed something that already has many seeders and Garuda is constantly renewing its ISOs.


I am interested in this topic but I unlike the OP do not know anything about the theme, what difference does Usenet have from a debrid service like AllDebrid? if I’m not wrong, Alldebrid download on their servers by torrent the magnet you give it and you just download it as a direct download, what difference does this have with Usenet?


This is not the first time this has happened, so it is probably temporary.

Also, the .onion of the site still works.

Remember that to access the .onion you need to first decode the text I send (without the Lemmy URL) with a tool like Base64 and use the Tor browser.

Edit: They also have a Mastodon account where they keep actively informing about the situation of the site, just 11 hours ago they said they have a problem that they cannot solve.


What are you supposed to do if you download the wrong torrent?
A few days ago I download a movie but the movie was in another language and I'm definitely not going to watch it because of that, I still completed the 1:1 ratio because at the end of the day I downloaded the file and used other people's bandwidth, but what is one supposed to do in this situation? I mean, with a 3gb movie it doesn't matter, 3gb is nothing and I'm sure there are those who download stuff just to seed it even though they will never use it or watch it, but something that happens to me very often is that as a Linux user I download a game (let's say FH6) and I download the Steamrip version but it doesn't work and then I find out that the Empress version does work (don't ask me why because it was Empress who made the crack) and now we are not talking about 3gb, we are talking about 200gb which is a considerable space for my PC, even if I have 1TB of SSD 200GB is enough and depending on the time it takes to get to the ratio 1: 1 can be worse. Edit: Thanks for all those answers!
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Browsing the internet I found this app called VMOS which is basically an Android emulator inside Android and it's great for testing or playing pirated games, the problem is that the app is almost completely in Chinese and I was curious to investigate how much the "Premium" version that unlocks root access and other things was worth and to save me work (I know) I asked Perplexity IA how much the premium version or membership was worth and their answer was that. Perplexity IA is a chatbot like ChatGPT (I guess based on it) that I found on the FMHY megathread and I found it quite useful because it doesn't need you to login to use it. [Here](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/c7dd8999-5293-4c4c-8d51-62babdfb7594?s=u) is the link to the chat for validity purposes.
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Can Pirate’s Bay be considered “safe” if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?
Basically I want to download a serie in a specific language and absolutely nowhere I can find it and recently I saw that the serie is available in the language I want in The Pirate's Bay but I know the bad reputation of the site and I have never used it. I ask if it can be considered "safe" in quotes because at least in this specific case the files are not executable, they are only .mkv and in fact I don't even plan to play them on my PC, I plan to play them on a computer I use as a media center that has no internet access (and it's Linux). And although this setup should be considered "safe" enough, the question itself makes me curious. In the torrent there is only the chapters of the serie and nothing else, or so it seems, I would analyze the files in VirusTotal before playing them but each chapter weighs more than 1GB (they are in 1080p and last more than 40 minutes) and VirusTotal does not allow to upload files of a certain weight. I am sorry for the generic question about a site with a bad reputation, but although according to my knowledge everything should be fine, there are always things that one does not consider or go unnoticed due to ignorance or lack of knowledge.
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Question about Vaultwarden
Currently I manage my passwords in an archaic but secure way, which is simply to synchronize a directory where I have my Keepass database between my devices, and I say archaic but secure because even if my Nextcloud server hosted on a VPS explode (where I have the database stored) I still have the databases stored locally, so I don't lose anything. I am currently interested in self hosting Vaultwarden although my biggest drawback is the fact that if my VPS were to fail for example I would not be able to access my database and if I lose access to the database I lose access to all my passwords. a pretty bad scenario. So I have a question, what can I do to prevent that from happening? Apart from hosting everything on my own hardware of course, for now I prefer to use VPS for different reasons.
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Can Skip Redirect be considered redundant if you have uBlock?
I have read that depending on the filters you have in uBlock, extensions like Skip Redirect are redundant, how true is this? And in theory, which filters should I activate for uBlock to perform the Skip Redirect function? Personally, I'm not a Skip Redirect user, but this comment that I have read on multiple occasions makes me curious and depending on what people tell me here I may try it.
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Piracy in China
I am curious about something that came to my mind recently and that is, in China is it possible to pirate and how? About China I only know about the firewall and little else, so before I say something idiotic or something that sounds very ignorant, I'd rather you enlighten me.
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First of all, I want to clarify that I have 0 relationship with the development of this project and I am simply a Linux user who always wanted something similar to IDM and I want to share my discovery with more people, with the hope that this program will become more famous. . Now, File Centipede as its own [Github](https://github.com/filecxx/FileCentipede) description mentions is a Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client. For those who have used IDM, File Centipede serves exactly the same purpose and has the typical features of any download manager, including torrent file support, plus it's open source and works extremely well in my experience. File Centipede has a browser extension ([Chromium](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/file-centipede/ogfhebakocdbenmnkaajmckmbcnnafmm)/[Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/filecxx/?utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser)) that allows you to download almost any video from the Internet, [in the style of IDM](https://github.com/filecxx/FileCentipede/raw/main/images/extension_video_bar.png), a little icon appears on top of the video frame to click and download. And also, if you have this extension installed, File Centipede intercepts downloads from your browser, and personally I am very surprised that it can intercept downloads from sites like MegaDB or Vimm(dot)net, when programs like JDownloader, FDM, XDM could not. intercept or simply downloaded an .html. Now, not all that shines is gold and I want to include something that you are going to run into if you try the program. File Centipede is a program that has been in development for a little less than a year, and has absolutely 0 ads, but when you go to their [downloads](http://filecxx.com/en_US/download.html), you will find that there are two versions, a "Premium Edition" and a "Free Edition", the Premium Edition is the "Most Updated" version, it has more functions and capabilities, but after a while you will get a pop-up telling you that you need an "Activation Code", and it is important to mention that the program does not stop working if you just ignore the pop-up, it works exactly the same but at times you will have that pop-up. If you wanted to buy the activation code, the developer allows you to pay a lifetime version for $28, or you can pay $0.02 for one day, that is, if you pay $1 you will have an activation code that will work for 50 days, and the developer makes it clear that all purchases are simply to motivate him to continue working on File Centipede and they will be refunded. And he warns that once the project reaches 100k stars on Github the Premium version will become free. In case you don't want or can't pay the activation code, the dev [releases a key each day](http://filecxx.com/en_US/activation_code.html) (usable by everyone, if I use it you can too) on his official site every day that eliminates that pop-up. Well, that being said, I hope someone finds File Centipede as useful as I do, personally I haven't seen any performance hit in the browser if anyone is concerned.
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