For anyone looking to dip their toes in the seven seas
Soulseek is a peer to peer media sharing network akin to limewire
yt-dlp i a command line Youtube video/audio downloader that does hq
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
KissAnime for streaming anime: https://kissanime.com.ru/
Similar sites that let you stream movies/shows/manga are aggregated on sites like TheBestCouchPotatoList:
You can find most free streaming sites through google/duckduckgo searches or pirating communities like the r/Piracy sub on reddit
Anything else can be found on torrent sites, which are usually aggregated on sites like TheProxyBay or r/piracy
What I find fascinating is how ad blocking is now being equated with piracy. Yeah, I get that ads pay bills and revenue supports sites, but holy shit, ads have gotten exponentially more intrusive and frequent than they ever were. If I have to watch a 30 second ad to see a 1 minute youtube video, I’m not going to bother. It’s not a reasonable burden. If a website truly wants to keep out people with ad blockers, they can limit access to their website to browsers that don’t work with ad blockers.
That’s about the ratio for US network TV - a half hour slot has close to 10 minutes of commercials.
On some older shows you can see this start to happen in realtime as you watch through the back catalogue. The oldest episodes will be like 26 mins long, and if the show ran long enough, the newer ones are like 18 mins. Utterly insane to me that people just accepted this shit.
Not just the time theft but they have become unreasonably privacy invading. When I still used Reddit last year, despite having targeted ads disabled & Android apps supposedly being sandboxed, I got ads related to my workplace after accepting a job offer, car ads after installing a used car sales app, and ads for snake oil related to a chronic health condition I have that I’d been researching. Now that I’m off corporate social media and have pi-hole running & uBlock origin in my browser, I haven’t seen a single targeted ad all year. When I deleted my Meta accounts I requested my data first and I could see the companies I had bought from that then told Meta I’d been shopping there which was really eye-opening as to how bad it is.
I’m mostly just frustrated that humanity agrees that our attention is something to be wrested away from us constantly.
Cannot deal with this bombardment of advertising.
I mostly watch YT on my TV but through Smart Tube. Watch all my other stuff with Streamio.
Every now and then the YouTube app is mistakingly opened and my lounge room is invaded by a company trying to align with me to buy a thing. It’s very cringe and intrusive. Back in the old days with commercial breaks on TV, you would just mute and go have a break. But this is different and I don’t know how people do it. Blockers are a must for security and sanity.
It’s not just that. Being assaulted with multiple scam calls and messages every single day is horrible for our psyche.
I just don’t ever answer my phone anymore.
It’s almost always a scam
I have to for my business :/
No. The rich oligarchs are coercing the working class into accepting their oppressive attention economy.
Don’t let them trick you into believing their bullshit.
Everywhere I look, even on the internet, I see people saying “the ads make it possible for me to watch this,” and it’s a phrase that I hate.
The rich oligarchs have propagandized everyone into accepting the oppressive attention economy. It’s already over, it happened.
Of course, I have the attention economy of North Korea minus Eritrea, divided by the entire EU: completely and absolutely broke, no attention anywhere, certainly none in the attention budget.
Obedience isn’t the same as acceptance though. Systems of oppression would not be such if the majority of people could ignore them.
Yes it’s happening, but we still have the power to stop it.
My apologies. I didn’t intend for my words to compete with yours.
I’ll go downvote my comments.
Bruh I feel where you’re coming from! If anything talking to you has reminded me that we need to speak up!
Adblocking is security and I will die on that hill.
My wife kept on using Chrome on her PC after Ublock was removed from Chrome.
In less than 30 days I had to reformat. Literally had a dancing lady clippy, and 3 “App” stores pop up when you hit windows key. It felt like it was 1998 again. If it was a human being, I would have killed it.
She has had that PC just fine for 7 years now with no issues. I guess she’s got out of practice for looking for the real download button…
She finally relented and swapped to Firefox.
What? You don’t want fake direct download links? I like my page to be covered in random green download icons. Thank you very much. My grandma loves getting her identity stolen, and so do I.
Hi, it’a me, you! You won’t believe what I bought with your credit card today, so glad you treated myself.