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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cannot confirm, in my usage I have never encountered this. I use Newpipe almost daily and do not have a YT login.

Occasionally Google has done something (deliberately or coincidentally) to limit third party app access, but that's usually worked around very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Plenty of others can confirm

https://www.google.com/search?q=please%20sign%20in%20bot%20YouTube&udm=14

It's been going on for months, especially VPN users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Okay, I'll click your Google link —

It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search

— and certainly none mentioning Newpipe 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Strange, I'm getting pages and pages of links about third party clients barfing

https://files.catbox.moe/f803x6.jpg

Maybe it's that "cleaner Google" url hack (udm=14) that's reallllly cleaning it up for ye?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Or just Google doing their best filter bubble. I don't think they have any useable info on me any more, haven't used their search for ages.

Either way, I'll take your word for it and just thank my lucky star that I can continue to use Newpipe without problems.