Free VPNs will get that a lot.
Even in paid VPNs, you still have to change servers until you find one that works.
Proton VPN (despite CEO controversies) is probably the best one to get around that, since they have 11000 servers.
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Pop-ups begging for my email are worse. I've started putting "admin@" as the email and signing them up for everything.
I usually go with gofuckyourself@
I am less annoyed by YouTube being shit and more annoyed by 3rd party websites clinging to YouTube for their video hosting needs because it is free. I'm also annoyed by the degree to which scrappers and other automation tools have made "Are You A Bot?" filters necessary to conserve the (relatively) limited resources of big retail web front-ends.
Like, fuck YouTube, sure. But they're not putting these blocks up for the thrill of it. They're trying to limit served content to actual humans rather than automated engines intended to juice view counts and harvest "free" data for AI training.
When I was signing up for something, (maybe Lemmy?) I got caught in a CAPTCHA where I had to identify street lights. Every time I clicked one the picture would change and there would be more street lights. Eventually I gave up, clicked Submit and it let me in.
Yeah I hate that too. For me it's always bicycles, buses or motorcycles. All the fucking time.
They've been using us the whole time to train their AI autopilot driving technology.
Looks like they trained it bad on purpose, as a joke.
I am bleeding, making me the victor
Meanwhile, at least 90 percent of comments on Youtube are made by bots.
Dead internet theory is real, at least on youtube.
Its a self-perpetuating cycle. Set aside the normally deplorable state of YouTube comments. Once you hit a critical mass of "Neat!" and "I liked it 💖🇺🇸🎆" and "Prussy en bi0" comments, why the hell would you bother reading much less participating? Then human interactions tank and its Oops! All Bots! in short order.
Ok. I wanna make this happen on Android. I am a complete dummy and the only thing I ever got off github had like step by step written instructions somewhere. What do I do?
Do I just download the freetube-0.23.2.13-Android.apk (latest release) from the releases site... Or do I need to build it first or something from the link you provided? Building it seems extremely daunting.
You can totally just install the latest release straight from the git repository. However, how often will you remember to check if there is a new release? If you want your apps to stay up-to-date you have 2 options. (Ordered from least effort to most effort)
- F-Droid (minimal setup, slower releases)
- Install F-Droid or one of the many 3rd party clients (I like Droid-ify the most right now)
- enable the
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repoin the Repository settings of the F-Droid client - install FreeTube Android
- Obtainium (moderate setup, quickest releases)
- Install the latest release of Obtainium directly from the git repo
- go to app configurations search for Obtainium and click on the
add to Obtainiumbutton so that Obtainium can update itself when there is a new release. - In Obtainium, click on
Add App. Then insert the release page URL for FreeTube Android (https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases) as the value forApp Source URL, then click theAddbutton next to it and you are set.
You are amazing! Thank you so much! Cowabunga!
Interesting, I do use Freetube on laptop but it's been finicky about when it wants to work lately. I figured it was more of YT blocking bs.
I tried Newpipe for Android and it wouldn't work, so I went to the fork PipePipe which does work better, but at some point I had to login so it could use my API because YT blocked that too. Plus PipePipe can scan NicoNico videos and Bilibili videos.
How good is Freetube on android?
I love it and yes, sometimes youtube makes a breaking change that any dev needs to find a work around for.
I use freetube on both because I can manage subscriptions better on it, and export to newpipe or freetube desktop easily. Freetube also includes sponsor block which is great.
I also keep newpipe on my phone as a backup since sometimes it works when freetube doesn't. I auto-update freetube from fdriod but let obtainum auto-update newpipe straight from their git repo so I know I got a good chance if having at least one working app.
I haven't tried pipepipe, it's been a long time since I watched a billibilli vid. (BGM!!!)
This is the way.
Are you a bot? Because that's the kind of post a bot would do.
I was trying to recover my Steam password last night and failed so many of those "check all the boxes with MOTORCYCLES" that it stopped even letting me try anymore. Fucking broken bullshit.
I've failed those before, probably because I move rather mechanically. I've tried deliberately putting delays and random mouse movements while don't them.
Lol I've had the same thought. On ones that make you click all the squares that have a bike or whatever, I always click a wrong one and then unselect it. Ya, that's totally human behavior now.
Piped is working again. I use it and Newpipe
I use revanced and nexttube
But do either of them allow like embedded links to be shared?
Bots are a problem. No single measure completely gets rid of them. Each measure just removes some of the bots. I personally think accounts are a decent measure, everyone should have a password manager anyway that lets them automatically log in on all their devices.
The problem of course is the tracking that's being done with the accounts, but I think the accounts themselves aren't the problem.
That's part of it, but it's certainly ALSO a mechanism to encourage people to use an account, or to register if they haven't, because that's more trackable and monetisable.
Same reason why when you hit an X post or an Instagram post it normally lets you see a little tease but roadblocks you to sign in as soon as you start scrolling. They want you signed in for their own reasons.
If google wanted, they could implement a range of measures to disincentivise bots, like not counting views apart from signed-in users so there's less reason for bots to be engaging with the platform, but that also is bad for their ad view monetisation metrics so they surely don't want to do that. They'd rather inconvenience the user.
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It's so they can track you better. ~~If you're in the US and using a Chromium based browser, so long as you don't view "adult content" they usually don't pop this up.~~ But they can't track in Firefox, and because of GDPR, they can't track logged-out users in the EU, so it's all about the money. I use Vivaldi and a VPN to watch youtube, works mostly fine.
EDIT: Well never-fucking-mind...this strategy has worked for me without fail for a lonnnnng time, and today they got me...same day the pulled uBlock origin from the Chrome store...dicks.
Pipepipe
Whenever I encounter that while trying to view something in private browsing (to avoid it tainting my recommendations), I go out of my way to use an alternative frontend just to spite them.
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