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?
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.
Okay, I’ll click your Google link —
It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search
— and certainly none mentioning Newpipe 🤷
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?