And I’m sure it’s annoying you too. You can’t view a single YouTube video anymore anywhere one is posted, without that stupid notification popping up. Which forces you to have to go to the shitty YouTube site, log in, hope through whatever verification checks that there is and finally, you can watch the video.
Isn’t there a way anymore where people can just link videos and for them to play? Fuck you, Google.
When I was signing up for something, (maybe Lemmy?) I got caught in a CAPTCHA where I had to identify street lights. Every time I clicked one the picture would change and there would be more street lights. Eventually I gave up, clicked Submit and it let me in.
Yeah I hate that too. For me it’s always bicycles, buses or motorcycles. All the fucking time.
They’ve been using us the whole time to train their AI autopilot driving technology.
Looks like they trained it bad on purpose, as a joke.
I am bleeding, making me the victor
Are you a bot? Because that’s the kind of post a bot would do.
Beep Boop.
…and that’s exactly what a bot would SAY!
Captchadgot them!
You’re in violation of the 84’ treaty on account of illegal thoughts.
Interesting, I do use Freetube on laptop but it’s been finicky about when it wants to work lately. I figured it was more of YT blocking bs.
I tried Newpipe for Android and it wouldn’t work, so I went to the fork PipePipe which does work better, but at some point I had to login so it could use my API because YT blocked that too. Plus PipePipe can scan NicoNico videos and Bilibili videos.
How good is Freetube on android?
Ok. I wanna make this happen on Android. I am a complete dummy and the only thing I ever got off github had like step by step written instructions somewhere. What do I do?
Do I just download the freetube-0.23.2.13-Android.apk (latest release) from the releases site… Or do I need to build it first or something from the link you provided? Building it seems extremely daunting.
You can totally just install the latest release straight from the git repository. However, how often will you remember to check if there is a new release? If you want your apps to stay up-to-date you have 2 options. (Ordered from least effort to most effort)
- F-Droid (minimal setup, slower releases)
- Install F-Droid or one of the many 3rd party clients (I like Droid-ify the most right now)
- enable the
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repoin the Repository settings of the F-Droid client - install FreeTube Android
- Obtainium (moderate setup, quickest releases)
- Install the latest release of Obtainium directly from the git repo
- go to app configurations search for Obtainium and click on the
add to Obtainiumbutton so that Obtainium can update itself when there is a new release. - In Obtainium, click on
Add App. Then insert the release page URL for FreeTube Android (https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases) as the value forApp Source URL, then click theAddbutton next to it and you are set.
You are amazing! Thank you so much! Cowabunga!
Meanwhile, at least 90 percent of comments on Youtube are made by bots.
Dead internet theory is real, at least on youtube.
I am less annoyed by YouTube being shit and more annoyed by 3rd party websites clinging to YouTube for their video hosting needs because it is free. I’m also annoyed by the degree to which scrappers and other automation tools have made “Are You A Bot?” filters necessary to conserve the (relatively) limited resources of big retail web front-ends.
Like, fuck YouTube, sure. But they’re not putting these blocks up for the thrill of it. They’re trying to limit served content to actual humans rather than automated engines intended to juice view counts and harvest “free” data for AI training.
I was trying to recover my Steam password last night and failed so many of those “check all the boxes with MOTORCYCLES” that it stopped even letting me try anymore. Fucking broken bullshit.
Doesn’t happen to me, but I don’t browse behind a VPN. People behind VPNs get this usually because lots of bad actors also hide behind VPNs.
Commercial VPNs are too inconvenient and saturated these days. It is not 2010 anymore. Every commercial VPN is leveraged by scrapers and other bots. If you use them, expect to face captchas. For the same price as a commercial VPN provider I rent a VPS and run OpenVPN on it. Personal, private, dedicated IPv4.
You are all nerds, act like it.
Bootlicker spotted
You have no clue whatsoever how internet security works, do you…
Damn boy you really love the taste of leather in the morning…
You are over loaded on corpo koolaid, why are you shilling for the enemy?
Sundar is that you, u old creep?
I thought MAGA were as dumb as you could get, but here you are proving me wrong. Way to go. The bar was pretty low and you still couldn’t step over it.
Why u mad tho?
Nobody mad. Didn’t hurl an insult at you, didn’t crawl in the mud with you and act like a child. But you couldn’t stand your own ignorance, and you had to lash out because you didn’t understand. Tried explaining it to you, and you doubled down. No reason for me to be mad at you wanting to remain ignorant.
U mad boy haha
lots of bad actors also hide behind VPNs
Stop listening to corpo bullshit, you sound like a fucking moron
I mean it’s not corporate bullshit. Yes there are plenty of legitimate uses, but the majority of bad actors are over VPN’s, so hence the statement is true.
I mean it’s not corporate bullshit
Yes, it is. VPNs have nothing to do with needing to log in, nor does “”“”““bad actors””“”" have anything to do with it
You got a source for that?
One of the ways VPNs work is by having all your web traffic look like it’s coming from somewhere else, obscuring where you’re really from. They will see a different IP address than what yours actually is. If you were the only person doing this there would be no problem, but VPNs only have so many servers so companies often know what IP addresses those are. What they see is THOUSANDS of actions being taken by a single IP address, so of course it looks like bots! It makes total sense to have some verification to help against DDOS attacks and bad actors.
I think you’re missing their point.
No, I’m continuing my point after they tried to change it
It’s corporate bullshit to pretend bad actors using VPNs are the reason these things are done. Even mentioning it is tiny-brain bullshit, y’all licking that boot hard rn
You’re missing the point, and you’re being an asshole about it. Take a chill pill, my guy.
You’re missing the point
Which is that corps will use bullshit reasons to do something annoying, but sure, pretend it’s something else
and you’re being an asshole about it
Waaaah, the guy who’s intelligence I insulted isn’t being nice to me
Take a chill pill, my guy.
Why is it every time a corpo ass-licker gets told they’re exactly that this is the response? I’m as chill as can be, y’all are just pathetic corpo lovers. If that upsets you: be better in future
Your initial “point” was just to insult them. You called them a moron. Nobody’s going to engage with that as if it’s reasonable.
Careful, he’s gonna user-tag you, next!
No shit, almost like I said that myself?
Idgaf if other people consider it reasonable when engaging with it: it’s just true
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Pop-ups begging for my email are worse. I’ve started putting “admin@<their domain>” as the email and signing them up for everything.
I usually go with gofuckyourself@<their domain>
I dismissed one today with [email protected]. Then I found step 2 was a paywall. I really fucking hate those popups that ask for an email without telling you there’s a paywall next, sometimes there’s something I think I want next but the paywall tells me I don’t, but then they’ve already got my email even though I haven’t signed up.
[email protected] is another viable solution, if not as directly effective.
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Bots are a problem. No single measure completely gets rid of them. Each measure just removes some of the bots. I personally think accounts are a decent measure, everyone should have a password manager anyway that lets them automatically log in on all their devices.
The problem of course is the tracking that’s being done with the accounts, but I think the accounts themselves aren’t the problem.
That’s part of it, but it’s certainly ALSO a mechanism to encourage people to use an account, or to register if they haven’t, because that’s more trackable and monetisable.
Same reason why when you hit an X post or an Instagram post it normally lets you see a little tease but roadblocks you to sign in as soon as you start scrolling. They want you signed in for their own reasons.
If google wanted, they could implement a range of measures to disincentivise bots, like not counting views apart from signed-in users so there’s less reason for bots to be engaging with the platform, but that also is bad for their ad view monetisation metrics so they surely don’t want to do that. They’d rather inconvenience the user.
It’s a necessary evil sadly. The internet is so overrun with bots that if there wasn’t a captcha or those cloudflare “click here to pass” buttons, the internet would implode.
OP isn’t trying to post, just trying to view. There is no justification for a captcha there.
The justification, security wise, is that they can’t really tell what the intent is when OP connects.
The other justification is that they also want to be able to track you via an account.
There is, AI bots are scraping the entire internet and overloading servers by downloading everything. That’s literally why every website is adding captchas and hiding behind Cloudflare now.
Huh, and yet yt to mp4/3 websites work flawlessly on all videos and music. Either both humans and bots get to see it or Noone at all.
