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?

  • @[email protected]English
    5•5 months ago

    https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager for YouTube (and other App mods), you need to patch the app yourself. (If you are downloading a patched apk you are getting scammed. You have to patch it yourself) https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon for manga / manhwa I use internet archives for paywalls but their might be a better solution. F-droid has a a lot of neat open source app, I guess you know of it since you are picking graphene, but just in case. Firefox supports addons, it’s been a great browser (though its UI is a bit rough sometimes) and could be your solution for YouTube with uBlock and the background play addons. I personally don’t like graphene launcher, I personally use NovaLauncher (the paid version), their is quite a lot of FOSS ones too.

    edit: sorry for the formatting, my phone f it up

    • MattEnglish
      9•5 months ago

      Revanced is questionable. Use Tubular instead.

        • MattEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          You’re not modifying a stock YouTube client, it doesn’t give you recommendations, it doesn’t have Shorts and you don’t technically violate the YouTube ToS.

    • haverholm
      4•5 months ago

      Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it’s baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.

      I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        3•5 months ago

        Question about browsers: Do you have a preference of Firefox, Fennec or Iceraven?

        Thanks for the tip about Web Archives. I’ll put that on for sure. Was considering sideloading Bypass Paywalls Clean and they mentioned Iceraven, which I had never heard of.

        Edit: BPC link goes to a *.ru TLD. Link is also on the BPC wikipedia page. They previously got booted from gitlab and github.

        • N.E.P.T.REnglish
          8•5 months ago

          I recommend Mull. It is security/privacy hardened Firefox and built by using Fennec as a base. Always use Fennec over Firefox because it removes telemetry, proprietary code, and strongly protects against browser fingerprinting. Comes with support for most (if not all) desktop Firefox extensions. I highly recommend using uBlock Origin, ask anyone and they’ll tell you it is the best content blocker available.

          Another good browser is Cromite. It is security hardened Chromium with built-in ad/content blocking, decent fingerprinting protection, and strong site isolation. It doesn’t have support for extensions because upstream Chromium on Android doesn’t either and it is hugely complex to port.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•5 months ago

      Modded APKs always have some level of risk. I would personally never use *vanced or anything, I’d stick to Newpipe.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•5 months ago

        The patch set is open source, so is the application that does the patches. I don’t feel like it’s worse than downloading most apps. Though you still rely on Google services.