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?
For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You’ll never need to log into Youtube again. And it’s not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂
You’ll never need to log into Youtube again
Well, I’ve used Newpipe for the longest time but depending on your internet connection / CGNAT’ed or, even using a VPN means it won’t work unless you do sign in :/
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.
Plenty of others can confirm
https://www.google.com/search?q=please sign in bot YouTube&udm=14
It’s been going on for months, especially VPN users.
IMO blocking ads is a form of piracy. You are circumventing there form (ads) of monetization. But yea Newpipe is great I personally use Tubular
Did you enter into a contract saying you must watch ads to use the service? Is ad blocking against ToS? I don’t think either are true, and a “click to consent” isn’t legally binding. Either way, I will never not block ads as it is important from a privacy and cyber security perspective.
Enter a contract no… you also don’t ‘enter a contract’ when you buy a dvd either or watch in theaters etc (no idea about streaming service tbh). As for ToS yes https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en
When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.