What are the best piracy tips/tricks. I host most of my own media, but I want to be able to read paywalled news articles, watch youtube w/o ads am generally into privacy, etc.

What are your best practices?

  • L_Acacia@lemmy.ml
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    https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager for YouTube (and other App mods), you need to patch the app yourself. (If you are downloading a patched apk you are getting scammed. You have to patch it yourself) https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon for manga / manhwa I use internet archives for paywalls but their might be a better solution. F-droid has a a lot of neat open source app, I guess you know of it since you are picking graphene, but just in case. Firefox supports addons, it’s been a great browser (though its UI is a bit rough sometimes) and could be your solution for YouTube with uBlock and the background play addons. I personally don’t like graphene launcher, I personally use NovaLauncher (the paid version), their is quite a lot of FOSS ones too.

    edit: sorry for the formatting, my phone f it up

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          You’re not modifying a stock YouTube client, it doesn’t give you recommendations, it doesn’t have Shorts and you don’t technically violate the YouTube ToS.

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      Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it’s baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.

      I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.

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        Question about browsers: Do you have a preference of Firefox, Fennec or Iceraven?

        Thanks for the tip about Web Archives. I’ll put that on for sure. Was considering sideloading Bypass Paywalls Clean and they mentioned Iceraven, which I had never heard of.

        Edit: BPC link goes to a *.ru TLD. Link is also on the BPC wikipedia page. They previously got booted from gitlab and github.

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      Modded APKs always have some level of risk. I would personally never use *vanced or anything, I’d stick to Newpipe.

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        The patch set is open source, so is the application that does the patches. I don’t feel like it’s worse than downloading most apps. Though you still rely on Google services.