Youtuber Johnny-come-lately gets way too much attention.

Er… duh.

Facebook’s entire business model consists in invading as much of everybody’s privacy as possible and monetizing people’s private data. Its “products” are just honeypots to attract marks to milk for private data. You didn’t really think they turned a profit selling electronic sunshades did you?

If someone is stupid enough to buy a pair of those and put themselves under surveillance by Facebook, it’s their problem. But if I ever see anybody looking at me with those glasses on their face, they’d better remove them pronto when I ask them to or I’ll become bellicose rather quickly.

It’s okay if you’re fully in control and it’s built with redundancy.

That’s the most accurate article on the subject I’ve read in years.

With shell scripts, I’m not sure.

With Python scripts, you want argcomplete.

Yeah DDG has been serving up AI slop lately, it’s really annoying.

Ducky see, ducky do. It’s kind of pathetic…

That’s okay, California has billions of gallons in reserve.

Oh wait…

Because alternative clients offer features that only the for-pay official client offers, like subscriptions and playlists, and Google can’t collect data on what people subscribe to or their playlists because in alternative clients, they’re stored locally.

Google doesn’t hate third-party clients because they skip ads: it hates them because they impede surveillance and privacy invasion, which is the true bread and butter of Google.

Awesome! I didn’t know. I’m gonna try it now. Thanks!

Oh wow interesting. Thanks!

…for the desktop.

Newpipe and Grayjay are still going strong on Android.

Google clearly has the ability to break any and all third party client at any time.

My theory is that they’re conducting random campaigns of working-but-not-all-the-time on this or that client at different times to grind everybody down and force them to comply through shear exhaustion. Because if they banned all 3rd party client outright, it would negatively impact the antitrust case against them.

Markup applies to titles in Lemmy. But be aware that titles are displayed raw above comments so don’t go too crazy with it, so your titles display okay raw too 🙂

Personally, if I can’t watch Youtube in third party clients - which happens regularly courtesy of Google - then I don’t watch Youtube at all. The official clients are simply too painful - not to mention, a privacy-invading nightmare.

Fixed.

There has been so many of them, to be honest I picked the first one I found 🙂

All the invidious instances I’ve tried either don’t work or their API is disabled - Sorry I didn’t see “through your browser”.

Not all invidious instances work. A lot of them have been hit by Youtube. But NewPipe still works - until it gets targeted too I guess. It’s a game of cat and mouse with Google - and it’s fucking tiring.

Yeah but China ain’t a democracy and Apple has their stuff manufactured in China. So you’d expect them to bend over backward to comply there.

The UK on the other hand is nominally a democracy, and Apple has no vital need to keep the UK powers that be happy. Apple could very well decide to tell them to pound sand and pull out of the country for the sake of principles, and I guarantee you the UK would quickly back down.

If Apple hadn’t complied in the UK, they would have lost a bit of profits for a while, but gained a ton of good will and credibility. They chose profits. Because corporation.

Incidentally, this whole thing should tell you how much of a democracy the UK really is.

I’m glad one more person discovered Linux is good in 2025.

I’m a random person too and I discovered Linux in 1993. Where’s my 15 minutes of fame?

Oh right, I’m not a Youtuber…

Have remembered to set the reboot in future command since

That’s not a bad idea actually. I’ll have to reuse that one. Thanks!

This is a server I was setting up. It’s not doing anything useful at all at the moment, hence the lax work practice. The only reason I drove back to work is because it’s needed tomorrow and I wanted to finish setting it up tonite.