Following the price hike, the basic YouTube Premium individual plan has increased by $2 per month, from $13.99 to $15.99. The Premium family plan, which allows up...
Newpipe is free. You can donate to support if you’d like. No account required, so no tracking. Subs and history are stored locally. And with an internet condom (VPN) no IP exposure.
Newpipe (and all the other ad blockers) are playing cat and mouse with them. They make some changes which screw up blockers, blockers patch and return to service pretty quickly. I couple months ago they went so far as to force javascript proof of work, I was able to setup yt-dlp with the javascript engine in like 5 minutes and keep going.
They target different things, sometimes the try to block high quality streams, sometimes it’s not logged in streams, sometimes it’s streams from certain ips. They keep moving the cheese, deleting this rss feed or that stream type. At some point, they’ll implement actual encryption like widevine and make it actually difficult to get at the streams, at which point, we’ll just screen record, commercial skip and the best of the best will end up in torrents.
Their music quality is general marginal. Research soulseek.
afaik you can’t screen record DRM content, it’s encrypted all the way to the TV or monitor. The OS never sees a decrypted stream. This is why if you try to screenshot Netflix the window just appears as a black frame.
Can’t use soulseek fairly without opening a port; I’m exclusively on mobile internet with a VPN without port forwarding… I might pay for home wifi for one month out of the year to fill my drive…
Newpipe is free. You can donate to support if you’d like. No account required, so no tracking. Subs and history are stored locally. And with an internet condom (VPN) no IP exposure.
PipePipe = NewPipe + SponsorBlock.
How are they not getting blocked?
I’ve thought of mass scraping youtube for music, but it’s not worth ths risk of being banned by Google for life.
Newpipe (and all the other ad blockers) are playing cat and mouse with them. They make some changes which screw up blockers, blockers patch and return to service pretty quickly. I couple months ago they went so far as to force javascript proof of work, I was able to setup yt-dlp with the javascript engine in like 5 minutes and keep going.
They target different things, sometimes the try to block high quality streams, sometimes it’s not logged in streams, sometimes it’s streams from certain ips. They keep moving the cheese, deleting this rss feed or that stream type. At some point, they’ll implement actual encryption like widevine and make it actually difficult to get at the streams, at which point, we’ll just screen record, commercial skip and the best of the best will end up in torrents.
Their music quality is general marginal. Research soulseek.
afaik you can’t screen record DRM content, it’s encrypted all the way to the TV or monitor. The OS never sees a decrypted stream. This is why if you try to screenshot Netflix the window just appears as a black frame.
Can’t use soulseek fairly without opening a port; I’m exclusively on mobile internet with a VPN without port forwarding… I might pay for home wifi for one month out of the year to fill my drive…