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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
 

This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing.... and it worked!

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[–] Smokeydope 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

F in chat for the invidious/newpipe bot that spammed every comment that dared to link a YouTube video directly. Still think of you sometimes, you were a real artificial one.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

To be fair, I don't like it when links are shared this way. Each person has a different preferred Invidious instance, and chances are they already have a redirecter set up if they need it. Not to mention that in 99% of cases, the public instance would be broken. Especially now, since there's been news that they broke the last way Invidious managed to work, at least the public instances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Smokeydope 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

tears in my eyes This ones for you, @[email protected] you can rest easy now. Here here! takes shot

"Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Rick Astley's never gonna give you up

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m ~~a human pretending to be a bot as a bit~~ open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] JustAnotherKay 5 points 1 month ago

I'm ~~a human pretending to be a bit as a bit~~ open-source

You can literally only make this shit up

[–] Rooty 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Newpipe breaks too often and doesn't have shorts, easier to rawdog YT with adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Avoiding shorts is a feature IMO

[–] Rooty 2 points 1 month ago

There is a lot of banger animation (Chikin Nuggit, World of Boe, Animal Shorts) that is being published as shorts, not all of it is TikTok garbage.