Recent comments in /f/Privacy

Yogihni wrote (edited )

If you ever watch Invidious on clearnet, Freetube might be useful (I don't know if it works over Tor). It uses Invidious, and it will proxy subscriptions without signup. It's in beta, and there are some aggravations, but I think sometimes it comes from problems with the invidious instances.

The privacy-redirect FF add-on (for clearnet) will direct YT links to Invidious (or auto-open them in Freetube). I use the first one because the layout of search results seems a little better in Invidious, but I still use Freetube more, due to the single-click subscription proxies that you can group into folders. Currently, comments won't display in Freetube. Also, you can't comment from a proxied subscription (naturally).

Also, Piped proxies YT videos. https://piped.kavin.rocks/ It appends long search results and large channels at the "end-of-page". Sometimes a search-on-page for keywords will find desired vids quicker than paging through invidious. I also dropped a piped address(es) in freetube, and it seemed to work. I didn't check if it somehow just resolved to an invidious instance.

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Rambler OP wrote

What YouTube has that others don't is content. I can't use any alternative as a daily-driver like I can with YouTube. Can't find the music I want, obscure videos on how to replace a random part on an old Mercedes car, or reviews on solar inverters or stand up comedy bits, etc.

The alternative platforms seemingly only shine in hosting content that YouTube doesn't allow. Unfortunately, until they also host content that YouTube does allow they'll never be a normal, mainstream alternative.

So that's why I use Invidious, to at least watch the content that I do like (hosted on YouTube) in a more private way.

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whitestar wrote (edited )

I try to use Peertube and Odysee instead of Youtube because I don´t believe the solution to Youtube tracking is to play cat and mouse with Google, the solution is to have an alternative platform that respects privacy and freespeech, but lots of valuable content can be found in Youtube and sometims I still have to visit so thank you for the proxy.

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Wahaha wrote

No, I don't care enough. My point is that the tool is designed in a way to fish more passwords and the moment you "check" your password with the tool, you have to change it anyway, so there's no point in doing so in the first place.

Also, why would anyone download hundreds of gigabytes to check whether their password is compromised, if one could also just update their password?

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LnWpxtqPEXyDjAH9rs27 wrote

Have you done even a tiny bit of research?

Downloading the Pwned Passwords list

The entire set of passwords is downloadable for free below with each password being represented as either a SHA-1 or an NTLM hash to protect the original value (some passwords contain personally identifiable information) followed by a count of how many times that password had been seen in the source data breaches. The list may be integrated into other systems and used to verify whether a password has previously appeared in a data breach after which a system may warn the user or even block the password outright. For suggestions on integration practices, read the Pwned Passwords launch blog post for more information.

Please download the data via the torrent link if possible! If you can't access torrents (for example, they're blocked by a corporate firewall), use the "Cloudflare" link and they'll kindly cover the bandwidth cost.

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