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
If you want an absolutely awesome free streaming service. Most movies in HD. Subtitles are fantastic if you need them. Most shows are available next day for streaming.
imo fmhy(dot)net is way better for finding resources
I didn’t know about that one, thanks! :3
Wow! I’m so happy to see someone mention SoulSeek. I was introduced to that almost 20 years and I’m glad to see it’s still around. I’m going to have to start using it again.
I’ve been using SoulSeek for a very long time. I even host some music on there. Keep it going!
I mean, the really good sites tend to have no ads at all.
Welcome to 2026 where there is a global war on
terrorpiracy.See y’all at the CIA black sites 🙃
Can we be cell besties?
Remeber to also arm yourself :3
*if you’re in a country where you can
Watched a YouTube video from my work laptop the other day, it averaged at 1 ad/minute over the course of a 10 minutes video. This is strictly unusable.
I was over at a friend’s house and they were watching YouTube stuff on their tv, and in a 30min video it had 4 different ad breaks with 2 ads per break.
So 16 ads for a 30min video
It made me not want to even watch what he was showing me, idk how they can live like that
The SmartTube app is the only way to watch Youtube on TV.
I have a little app I’ve made that serves only to offer me a Download From Clipboard button.
Using Freetube I copy the URL of what i want to watch, click the button, which then uses yt-dlp to download the video in an Apple TV-friendly format, which it then drops into my Jellyfin folder.
Its SO MUCH nicer than having to use the regular YouTube app, and has the added benefit of removing the temptation to mindlessly scroll, looking for something else to watch.
Personally, that’s why I don’t install an adblocker on my phone, to encourage myself to use my computer instead. Using YT without adblocker is excruciating
kissanime just brought back so much nostalgia for me, the first place I started browsing and watching anime on back in 2009.
Kissanime? Are we back in 2010? It has horrible ui and don’t think the original is even alive anymore. Instead, try miruro, hianime, animepahe or just go to everythingmoe.com and pick a website that suits your needs.
hianime
isn’t that hentai?
Seriously. I feel like they made a huge mistake with that name lol.
might not be a mistake :)
Kissanime, going to check that one out
If you never left Firefox, neither of them have ever had ads.
Or if you’ve switched to Vivaldi soon enough.
Unfortunately, Firefox has become really slow, especially at work, in my case.
*fewer
I’m sorry
Historically using “less” for countable things was acceptable. There are examples from Old English 1000 years ago. I like this guy’s explanation where it’s more of a squares and rectangles relationship than a squares and circles one.
How dare you
Ads is both finite and infinite in the sense that you may count ads, but their volume can also be measured in fractional/continuous ways such as screen space or video length.
welcome to 2025 where you pay and STILL have ads.
I’m trying to get back on the ol’ sea, but all of the websites I know are gone or untrustworthy
If anybody knows how to find a replacement, could you please DM me?
I added some recommendations to the description of the post :3
Nice try, cop.
Youtube is probably the biggest piracy site that exists. Nowadays many stuff is hidden from copyright bots by having titles of movies, audio books etc that don’t match the original.
DuckduckGo seems to block all the youtube ads for me.
Fully recommend.
