similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I use NewPipe from the FDroid  repo on android to watch YouUube videos, without downloading. I am aware of youtube-dl but is there something on F34 that makes it possible to watch streaming videos on YouTube?

Thanks,
Ranjan

[Matti Pulkkinen]

ke, 2021-05-05 kello 10:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
> I use NewPipe from the FDroid  repo on android to watch YouUube videos,
> without downloading. I am aware of youtube-dl but is there something on
> F34 that makes it possible to watch streaming videos on YouTube?
>
> Thanks,
> Ranjan

If you have both youtube-dl and mpv installed, you can use mpv to
stream from YouTube without downloading the video beforehand, i.e. the
command

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

in a terminal will play the video without leaving a video file behind.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 10:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use NewPipe from the FDroid  repo on android to watch YouUube
> videos, without downloading. I am aware of youtube-dl but is there
> something on F34 that makes it possible to watch streaming videos on
> YouTube?

OK, I'll bite. Why not use a browser? That's what YouTube is designed
for after all.

poc

[Ranjan Maitra]

Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at 5:42 PM
From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" 
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Subject: Re: similar software as NewPipe, etc on F34?
On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 10:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use NewPipe from the FDroid  repo on android to watch YouUube
> videos, without downloading. I am aware of youtube-dl but is there
> something on F34 that makes it possible to watch streaming videos on
> YouTube?
> OK, I'll bite. Why not use a browser? That's what YouTube is designed

for after all.

Ouch! Yes, indeed! So designed aka desired by google to track and display ads. I don't get that using NewPipe, and I hope not using mpv + youtube-dl.

Ranjan

[stan]

On Thu, 6 May 2021 01:29:46 +0200
Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Ouch! Yes, indeed! So designed aka desired by google to track and
> display ads. I don't get that using NewPipe, and I hope not using mpv
> youtube-dl.

Unless that technique somehow obfuscates your ip address, or you use a
different ip address to watch youtube videos than anything else you do
on the web, you are still subject to tracking.  Google has observers
on sites everywhere, and they all feed into the servers analyzing the
data for linking information in order to serve ads.

I think the usual way to do what you want is to use a vpn or tor, so
that the ip address you originate from isn't known to the site you are
visiting.

A poor man's way of doing this is to use a separate profile for youtube
in firefox, and reset your isp connection to get a new ip address,
before and after using youtube with that profile.  This assumes that
your isp randomly assigns ip addresses on each connection (mine does),
and that you use plugins to protect your browser sessions from easy
tracking. Not foolproof, but makes you higher hanging fruit.

[Oğuz Ersen]

1. FreeTube from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube
2. Invidious from your browser: https://api.invidious.io/

--
Best Regards
Oğuz Ersen

[Tim]

On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 15:44 +0200, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Btw, is there any setting which resets ip address once in a few
> hours. Does DHCP do this anyway, even though I think that the
> interval is for over a day.

DHCP leases you an IP for a certain time period (whatever the server is
configured for).  Half way through the lease the client tries to renew
the lease.  It'll try to get the same one, but the server doesn't have
to comply.  It can also release the lease.  What the server does when
it next requests an IP is up to the server.  It may give you a
different one, it may give you the same one (that could be time-
dependent, it could be always).