piracy

Skoobie, rok temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Ads have never stopped me. Reasonable pricing to access content stopped for me for several years tho. Fuck you, Zaslav.

radix, rok temu w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

Seconding the DNS suggestion. Specifically I set my DNS to dns.adguard-dns.com and that does the trick for mobile games and such.

Lojcs, rok temu

Duolingo stull shows an ad for the premium if no external ad is available iirc

radix, rok temu

Ohh, got it. Yeah, I don’t know of a way to get rid of that. I’d guess Revanced, but I haven’t used it myself.

ByteWizard, rok temu w [GUIDE] qBittorrent w/ I2P Support in Docker

Never head of I2P, sounds pretty cool. I’ve just stuck to encryption for torrents and haven’t had any complaints from my ISP.

geti2p.net/en/

Strict3443, rok temu

Glad to see that working still! Torrenting over I2P is sort of a fail-safe option for people in somewhat oppressive places where VPNs may be illegal. Also, with the recent port-forwarding removal in Mullvad, this makes it harder moving forward to try and seed content without being able to make a direct connection with open ports.

Pulp, rok temu w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

Why not use chatgpt for it instead

can, rok temu

…really?

Gush, rok temu

What? Are you serious bro?

5ubieee, rok temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

the only case i could see it stopping someone is if they just pirate for funsies and have the disposable income to buy anything they want lmao. if you need something and cant afford it then inconveniences and annoyances don’t matter

callyral, rok temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Not much of a pirate, but I do like blocking ads. In that situation, here are some browsers I believe would still have ad blocking capabilities.

Firefox-based browsers:

• Librewolf (privacy-focused; comes with uBlock Origin)
• Tor (don't know much about it, but it probably would have ad blocking still)

Chromium-based:

• Vivaldi (it appears they have built-in ad blocking; closed source though)
• Bromite (mobile; not sure if still continued)

bullbrand, rok temu w What is your go to music grabbing solution?

Nicotine+ to grab what I want, EasyTAG to edit metadata, move the files to my self hosted instance of Ampache which I can then access either with SublimeMusic on desktop or SubStreamer on my phone if I’m traveling.

can, rok temu w A way to disable laugh tracks?

No doubt AI will be able to remove it soon if not already.

Now the practicality of that is another matter.

supervent, rok temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Mldonkey/amule/emule do not have any ad anyway

ghoscht, rok temu (edited rok temu) w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

You can create a Duolingo class which you can then join yourself. This gets you unlimited hearts and no further ads on the mobile version (at least from my experience). Creating a class has no prerequisites so just try it out. If you still want to be able to view the public leaderboard there’s a setting for that in the classroom settings, but it’s disabled by default.

Edit: I’m not sure if there are any other ads besides the premium and family ones, I’m running PiHole so your mileage may vary. I’m only talking about those 2 which PiHole cannot block.

can, rok temu

Oh, this is an actual option? I thought the other commenter was joking.

sholomo, rok temu

yeah, I can confirm it works. I set it up around 2 years ago and I still don’t have ads and have unlimited hearts

mateomaui, rok temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

yes, if pirating were more of a pain in the ass because of ads, I would still do it.

SomeBoyo, rok temu w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

You might try a modded apk, but those can be sketchy at times

22rw, rok temu

Talking about modded apks, this one works for me:

aHR0cHM6Ly9tb2R5b2xvLmNvbS9kb3dubG9hZC9kdW9saW5nby0yMTM3

VirusTotal scan results

can, rok temu (edited rok temu)

#piped bot had too much to drink below

Just keep scrolling

FeelzGoodMan420, rok temu (edited rok temu) w Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?

A quick 2 second google of literally this exact issue and website shows to force update ublock origin lists btw.

Click purge all caches, then click update now. That usually fixes issues like these in websites. Not sure why.

Neuromante, rok temu

Dang dang dang! We have a winner here!

Honestly, I got no idea were to find info about this situation (didn’t google censor this stuff?). Thanks!

FeelzGoodMan420, rok temu

I don’t think Google censored it at all considering I found the answer in 5 seconds lolol.

k_rol, rok temu w Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?

They do have to pay for their website somehow. One could argue you are not honoring other pirates.

spiritedpause, rok temu w Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?

The best alternative is one that you can self-host and/or isn’t centralized.

My favorite option right now is torrents-csv.ml, since it’s “a collaborative repository of torrents, consisting of a searchable torrents.csv file.”

Basically, the author of the project scrapes the torrent DHT network and compiles a csv of all the torrent magnet links into a CSV file that’s searchable on this site. You can selfhost your own private instance of the site by following the instructions on the repository here: git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server

Neuromante, rok temu

I saw it a bit of time ago… how safe it is? The access is not centralized, but the data it gets in it is, right? Or it is a service in the same webserver the one that does the scraping?

Will look into it when I got time… always is docker, jeez…

brickfrog, rok temu

Basically, the author of the project scrapes the torrent DHT network

Is that accurate? Where is DHT mentioned?

Neither their github nor their main site makes any mention of DHT, also don’t see any DHT scraper in the git page git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic but maybe I’m not looking in the right place?