Ninth circle of hell. It’s a streaming platform that’s infamous for basically never banning anyone, so it attracted all sorts of sketchy or downright evil folk.

…is this process not against the spirit of piracy

It could be against the anti-establishment values of some digital pirates, but it’s not at odds with the nature of piracy itself.

Piracy on the internet is just distributing digital goods protected by intellectual property law without the permission of the copyright holder. Some pirates engage in this practice for political reasons, but for many others it’s simply a matter of economics or availability.

Thankfully the stuff I’m interested in is very easy for the most part. It’s rare for me to struggle with finding something.

I do this with Blazing Chrome, it works in my case.

There are alternatives to YouTube though, there are a lot of them. It’s just none of them are viable for the viewers because content creators are hell bent on never using anything other than YouTube. To the point I believe they aren’t actually bothered by YouTube’s problems and only occasionaly complain about it for easy views.

Personally I don’t care anymore, YouTube’s problems don’t affect me. As long as PipePipe works I’m happy. And if it stops working I’ll just stop watching YouTube, or just minimize my usage to the extent it’s possible.

Lemmy already came such a long way though, when I first tried using it, it was a barren wasteland. Federated social media is the only kind of online platform that can brute force it’s way into viability so I’m confident Lemmy will continue to grow or remain big enough to satisfy it’s users. It just won’t be as big as Reddit.

I really hope Reddit keeps on its road to enshittification so more people realizes what kind of shit hole it is and more open to try the fediverse they would be

I don’t see this ever happening to be honest. Considering how much shitter YouTube has been for so much longer I don’t believe most people online will ever leave the mainstream platforms.

I believe fediverse will be like Linux. It’ll always have a dedicated userbase large enough to sustain itself, but it won’t be big like the proprietary platforms. And that’s ok.

I don’t think compiling from source is easy even on Linux. Whenever I try it whatever program I’m trying to compile just refuses to compile, even though I seem to have all of the necessary programs for it. I can’t recall successfully compiling anything other than suckless tools, which have basically no dependencies.

Isn’t AnimeBytes one of the hardest private trackers to get into?

I never felt the need to use a GUI for it, it’s very easy to use.

Also the site itself is ancient, searching for stuff sucks over there.

There is no benefit to using Firefox unless you really like uBlock Origin and will not consider another kind of adblocker.

Mozilla is just controlled opposition lead by the same greedy executives as Google anyway, using it won’t make a difference. It’s at best 3% market share won’t stop Google from pushing their crap to everyone else either.

Problems of the modern web in general cannot be solved by just another browser engine. What it really needs is simplification. A way to make it do what it does now but faster and in a way that is easier to implement, but I don’t see anyone doing that in the near future.

I decided to push my gaming to only evenings because I was unhappy with how much time it consumed, so now I read during the day.

I don’t know if you play video games so this may not be helpful to you, but doing this skyrocketed my reading.

Anna’s Archive also provides links to outside links, you can use those whenever they’re available. Also there is one server that doesn’t make you wait, it’s really slow but that’s not a big deal for epub files.

Does that mean Facebook in French?

He left after season three, the first movie was meant to be the end.

And even if someone doesn’t care about that sentimental stuff, it’s also most likely a terrible movie. Spongebob as a whole isn’t worth watching once Hillenburg left after the first movie since he intended that to be the end of the series. Post-Hillenburg Spongebob is little better than YouTube kids videos made by content farms, sometimes no better.

Given that no one makes a fuss about it when corporations do the stealing, I think so.

I don’t know why a gazelle variant of all things wanted a mascot, but hey I’m not complaining. Awesome work as usual.

On my phone I use https://byebyepaywall.com.

Link?