The ancient trials redefined for the modern age
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Back when I had this problem, I got past it by hovering over the links and buttons and looking at the little url preview in the corner. The real one will either be on the same domain as the website or it will be something like gofile. The fake ones will go to domains like ads.doubleclick.net and ofksheugj.info.
The real ancient trials were on the 1990s warez sites where you'd have to hunt for a 2 pixel square link on a giant page of porn ads and other trickery. Then you could get part 42 of 78 of a .rar for some game. Repeat another 77 times and wait a week for it to download on 33.6k and you got a free game!
And using flash get to manage your shitty download speed to resume disconnections and multithreading the 5 kbps stream to max out your download.
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the real trial always seems to actually be installing firefox with ublock
Really? I haven't had any issues on the 4 devices I've tried it on (Manjaro, Android, Windows, Manjaro). And the Windows was a locked down school version.
I think the joke is how many people are stubborn to move to firefox
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More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can't talk about the seedy anime websites, but youtube-mp3 conversion is so easily done yourself without havaing to visit any virus-pushing sites once you figure out how.
It's a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.
You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.
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"A couple command line packages", well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as "a couple", this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.
Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.
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yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn't reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url
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This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.
This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.
/r/wheredidthesodago, one of my old stomping grounds, was dedicated to this
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More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg
I don't listen to hip-hop
Y to the T to the DLP to the FF Motherfuckin PEG
I know, it even scans
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I usually use the trick to download YouTube videos using vlc media player, that gives mp4s, which one can get an mp3 from if for some reason I want an mp3 and not mp4 using audacity or something
From my time at Tumblr and DeviantArt I am really familiar with stuff like ffmpeg, but I don't think it is the type you are referring too.
Now I'm wondering what else ffmpeg could mean... Maybe female-female-male threesome with pegging?
Now there's a rabbit hole!
We tell not the muggles of our secret porn.
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I recently needed a QR code generated, and for the life of me, I couldn’t find a website that wouldn’t either require me to sign up, or generate the QR code to their link shortener service.
Finally resorted to logging into my headless Linux server and installing some QR code package.
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The seedy anime sites are noticeably nicer than any legit site I've tried. Crunchyroll is a worse website than most pirate sites(assuming noting has improved since years ago). You just need an adblocker for the nuke my PC button next to the video.
you can also use VLC to find the video source itself and just download it there.
Someone's using yt-dlp and ffmpeg wrong if they're getting ads.
Also the pirate movie sites that you can't use without adblocker because without it wherever you click it opens a new window.
It's like a normie/noob filter at this point
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cobalt.tools is FOSS with no trackers or ads and can download from most places that matter.
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The faerie folk have moved onto the internet.
We've been here for aaaaages 🌈
You rang
It is the Otherworld after all
It reminds me of trying to find ROMs online as a kid, the link is almost always the smallest link, and almost never the five green DOWNLOAD buttons.
Who still uses that shit.. Like y'all forget NewPipe is a thing
Newpipe for Android and jdownloader on PC. Could even use vlc to find the direct download link. Never need to worry about where I'm downloading yt vids again.
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Adblockers remove all those messages and ads. You'd be surprised at exactly how boring those pages look without 12 different download buttons, an ad for McAfee, and two banners about VPNs.
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One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they're doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like its almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I'm here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x
I've had a good experience with youpak, you just take the url from whatever YouTube video you're on and change "tube" of YouTube.com/shegaiabfvtbrbw to "pak" so it's youpak.com/whateverwhateverwhatever and the dropdown right at the top has the download or convert to MP3 buttons right there.
I do use Firefox with an adblocker so idk if it's a cancerous site otherwise.
I have a little app that lets me send it a Spotify playlist and then it goes and finds the matching song on YouTube, converts it, and downloads it all in a big batch. Took forever to fuckin' find and it was of course on a site like that. Been a while since I used it; probably doesn't even work anymore. I tried like 5 others before finding that one, and they were all broken.
The dumb thing is I only wanted it because even though I use the local file thing and still pay for Spotify, it wouldn't actually play anything whenever I didn't have Internet access, making it's own built in system of "downloading" and playing files locally useless.
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I hate it when people write the way they talk
How else should people write? Like AI models or something? What is wrong with writing in a way that conveys the speaking style of the author?
That's... A rather stupid thing to be irked over.
I bet you love people who write the way their dialect sounds.
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