-->since everyone is confused about this i'm gonna try to explain as best as i could and also clearing some misconceptions:

1# why this is such a big deal ?

if this gets implemented AND it gets widely adopted websites now can refuse to give you content if you are running a non complied browser, remember those website that say "oh you are using an ad blocker so disable it to access our site" they can detect this by various methods but ultimately all of them rely on running a JavaScript into your browser. which you guessed it, its easy to modify and tamper with manually or using extensions

now what WEI-API does is that it can verify the integrity of the web page ( JavaScript/HTML/CSS has not been modified ) and even tell the website what extensions - ad blocker detected no content for you - you are using and what browser you are using - firefox or brave detected no content for you - and do not be fooled into thinking that this can be spoofed. and website owners who think that they are running a business not a charity will implement this.

2#will using firefox save me?

if this gets widely adopted and you inevitably encounter a website that require this ( for your job ,school or your bank ) you have no choice but to use chrome just like when your banking apps refuse to work because your phone is rooted which means that SAFETY-NET is broken

3#why this is a threat to begin with?

this is only viable if the web adopt it so why bother?, well guess what google is famous for making its services very easy to integrate and well documented just look on how easy it is to integrate google analytics and google adsense* into websites and how many of them use it in the internet.

4#what can we do to prevent this?

this is my personal opinion but i think we simply can't, this not like the reddit incident were very large portion of the user base was upset most people don't know/care/give-a-fuck about web technologies and how they work.

#and Finally "but google said they don't plan to use this to fingerprint you (Device ID) or track your browser history or interfere with the work of extensions"

do you really believe that a company like google whose bread and butter is advertising would not make it easier for themselves, a company who has been exposed time and time again for lying and having ulterior motives ( you don't need to look far just look into what manifest-v3 did )

Okay guys, looks like the mediafire one has been taken down, Rockstar lawyers are really freaking out

I like it here on Lemme. I feel pretty comfy. And most of you here are tech savvy. And if not, at least you have some level of basic true understanding of how technology works., Unlike those impostor syndrome redditors. And I suppose it's a plus that corporations don't hunt us down for discussing piracy.

i just want to point out that the claims in this article are from Netflix ,so take them with a grain of salt

Okay, my bad. Here is the source

you do you if you use it that much and you think it's worth your money then good for you ( i honestly mean it ) we don't like youtube ads, YES that is true but it is not the only reason :

• some of us hate youtube ( and google by extent ) for tracking
• some of us hate youtube because it's algorithms tricking us into forcing certain agendas and ideals upon us
• some of us hate youtube because the hypocrisy around how they treat content creator differently yet claiming they are all under the same "rules"

the list goes on but what i want to say is that we don't hate people who pay for youtube we hate those who defend the platform like it's a white knight and nothing shady happening in it

Steam decks ?

Most of that size is assets rather than programme code

If you are using chrome, ditch it and use something like braver or firefox.

We are already in 2024, which means that Chrome probably does not support manifest-V2 anymore. (What an unexpected turn of events)

you got it right people who stayed are either the stupid type who can't work their mind around how lemmy works OR people who can't be bothered to switch and just want to get xyz for free and both are not the people who made our community

you should hear some of what they say " oh reddit is a profit company what did you expect " or " the mods faked votes through discord raids " or as plain as it gets it does not concerns me I don't give a fuck so stop shoving Lemmy down my throat

Legality is not an issue here. We are not exactly respecting copyright law anyway.

chromium is just striped down chrome ,yeah its open source but google is the main contributor meaning the final decisions are up to them to accept or refuse ( or even force)

i don't want to be a buzz kill but if this train continue its course i am afraid that they gonna do something about youtube-dl

not quite , this is way more serious than refusing to give extensions access to websites content. ( for those who don't know that's what manifest-v3 essentially do )

lol, i think we can agree that 4+ GB of pure letters are not by any means small

Linux click bait Lv.999

so long friend you will be missed

let me bring you up to speed a couple days ago YouTube legal team threatened invidious devs saying they are abusing their API ToS ( trems of service ) which the devs said that the claim does not hold any truth to it since invidious is just youtube proxy\scraper and does not depend on API

1Tb torrent. Man, that's gonna take ages.

Hold on buddy, i would say that the first three are for veterans

Your the MVP ⭐

did all of them stopped working already 😔 ?

add mpv+youtube-dl to thr mix and you get a full healthy dinner

Antivirus softwere. i cant even began to describe how horribly wrong can that go

I mean who the fuck pirate that, you went out of your way to pirate a software from a shady website just to protect yourself from other files u download from other shady websites

yep just like some websites do with user agents

don't know as i don't use "youtube" - the site - i am using a different front end

i don't think that's possible mate for 2 reasons :

• software companys pay antivirus software makers to flag and remove game cracks
• cracks use obfuscation and workaround techniques that are similar to whats used in viruses so most flag them as mallisious

This is going to my wallpaper collection

if that's the case then that's explains it

but its a bit misleading to call it FOSS tbh

i'm guessing that whoever leaked the source code didn't include the assets cause you can easily extract them directly from the game.

They seized some of the domains here is the official statment.

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• singlelogin.rs

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KDE connect on both your PC and phone just use --no-install-recommends to avoid KDE bloat

i totally agree that YouTube is mind cancer for kids. it is like cigarettes it's damaging to the brain and kids should not consume it until they are older and even then one shall not consume it at all from the start for his own good

that's just sad well i hope this is for the best

look at that idiot, typical redditor behavior talking shit from their ass as if they are experts on what they are talking about

This is weired, i might be blind because i don't see any LINUX

I think it’s just not that popular

i don't think so there are far more less mainstream and ancient programs in the repos

It is available in AUR, though

the AUR is "Arch User Repository" witch is community maintained repo ..so i don't think that counts.

dynamic ips can be sometimes a good thing like when downloading from file hoster that have a timer limit

reboot router, refresh page, profit.

interesting, that's actually a reasonable theory

ouch that would be painful