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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Trinity with Wayland?

From: "William Morder via trinity-users" <trinity-users@...>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:36:25 -0700

On Thursday 20 August 2020 14:29:18 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Anno domini 2020 Thu, 20 Aug 14:20:14 -0700
>
>  William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
> > On Thursday 20 August 2020 13:14:31 Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Anno domini 2020 Thu, 20 Aug 21:07:01 +0100
> > >
> > >  Janek Stolarek scripsit:
> > > > > Looks like you visit interesting places on the net
> > > >
> > > > YouTube. By default works neither in Tor nor in Icecat.
> > > >
> > > > Janek
> > >
> > > youtube works with tor browser bundle :) ... but if your IP is correct
> > > you are in UK, so you could run into your goverment censorship with
> > > tor.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nik
> >
> > YouTube is getting harder to access, but I never watch online, anyway.
> > There is this little item called youtube-dl, which allows me to download
> > their videos, so that I can watch at my leisure, without viewing their
> > ads, or waiting for buffers, and I can watch it as many times as I want.
> > Also, if you know what you are doing, there is no problem with running
> > "torify youtube-dl" when trying to grab a video. And geographical
> > restrictions also vanish (with a little work).
>
> LOL ... that nice tool is the reason for konqueror popping up to blame me
> "your free disk space is under 5% ...". The ads I never see, my first line
> of defense is uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Have you ever gotten the age
> restricion removed?

You can do almost anything with youtube-dl, if you know how to arrange it on 
command-line. See either youtube-dl --help, or the manpages. 

I keep a list of commands for quick reference, but mostly I have whittled it 
down to a few that work with little trouble.

Bill

>
> > If other people trust unknown entities somewhere "out there" having
> > access to my browsing history, or whatever else of my data they get in
> > their clutches, then they must be better adapted to this digital age than
> > I.
> >
> > I may eventually return to a totally pre-computer life. There are still
> > some places in the world without all this time-wasting crap, where people
> > read actual books made of paper, or play music with actual instruments
> > made of wood.
> >
> :)
> :
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill
> >
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