Yep, seems down for the moment.

I personally don’t use Youtube (I prefer using Libredirect with Piped/Invidious) but I tried Youtube on Firefox with UBlock and I didn’t have any problem. This might sound dumb but what filters do you use on UBlock? I have read that turning on some filters would help with this but I’m not sure.

I have been using modded/unlocked apps for years from Mobilism and until this day I haven’t been infected with any virus as far as I know, just stick with trusted modders such as Derren or Balatan.

If you are interested, Mobilism is on the Megathread.

Well, in first place being this a Piracy community, from my own experience I can tell you that most cracked games have trackers and that shit removed by the modder, so you can considered them “privacy respected” at some point, yep, even Minecraft.

And another option is using the IzzyOnDroid repo, it have alot of games that aren’t on F-Droid main repo.

Mobilism is usually a very good source to get modded apps with unlocked paid subscriptions.

Personally I have never used a Xiomi device to comment on whether it is a problem or not, but maybe it is, maybe it is like Windows Defender that deletes cracked .dll files when installing a pirated program or game and then the program does not start for no reason because of that.

Personally I have used Mobilism for years and it is simply the best site to download apk with pay options unlocked, although sometimes there may be crashes, from my experience can I say it, but it is not the most normal.

Have you checked that the apk you are downloading is compatible with your device? For example, depending on the age of your device and the version of Android you should download apk that are armeabi-v7a (old architecture) or arm64-v8a (newer architecture), although there are also apks that bring all versions in one.

I didn’t mean to make it sound bad, although now that I read it again it sounds bad.

With “archaic” I wanted to refer to the fact that it is not necessarily the most efficient in my opinion, because for example in the case of Nextcloud, to synchronize my Keepass directory with a directory on my phone I need an external app called FolderSync and there is no “Synchronize when detecting changes” option, every time I make a change I must manually synchronize or wait for a scheduled synchronization to take place, and it is not exactly the most efficient, unlike with Bitwarden/Vaultwarden because synchronization is immediate.

And I know that in KeepassDX for example I can directly access my database and load it from there, but every time I make a single change when entering Keepass it says that “I lost connection to the file” (Something like that) and I have to go manually and choose the file again, I would prefer to have my passwords always in sync.

I have nothing to contribute but ServerHunter looks great, thanks OP.

I have been using it since I read your comment and it is absolutely great, not only because of piracy, but also because of the links attached to some Youtube channels.

I didn’t know FastForward but it looks great, in fact Skip Redirect didn’t work on many sites. And I do not know, it is a comment that I have read a lot but I have never been able to confirm, I only know that at least in my case sometimes the counters of some pages go down to 0 suddenly but I do not know if it is because of uBlock.

What is Jackett’s manual search? Never heard of it.

Does kget work well? I tried it in the past, but it never really captured any link I gave it.

A good read no doubt, it really makes it clear why piracy is and was often a necessity, not only for those who can’t afford to pay for something, but also those who live in an authoritarian regime. I wonder how Lin and Yu would have fared after the ban was lifted.

Interesting, thanks for the information.

It reminds me that I had read that Russia doesn’t care about foreign copyright either, and it makes sense.

Maybe you can tell developer on his Github of the site where you couldn’t download the video, he usually answer.

To be honest, I think the only “piracy/privacy friendly” alternative would be to use a stolen credit card haha (I don’t recommend it at all and it’s a joke).

I think in general all these services will ask you for a credit card in one way or another, and that’s fine, they need to make sure that no one abuses their services. The closest thing to something “piracy friendly” you can do is to use an old laptop or computer and use it exclusively for that or even better in a virtual machine.

I thought that too and it is not quite clear on their page, but it seems to me that the developer means that purchases will be refunded only if you want to once the project reaches 100k on Github. In my opinion sincerely if I donate today I doubt that the day the project reaches 100k I would ask for a refund, and anyway I would never ask for a refund if I want to support its development.