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Any advice on where to start for a novice pirate… And i mean brand spankin new
the wiki at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com can help you get started
I’ve got a NordVPN subscription and use Transmission to download torrents.
Don’t use Nord. They got hacked and didn’t notify their users for 2 years.
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I heard it from someone (not me) that they’ve been using a modded spotify app downloaded from apkmody.io for more than a year now and it’s basically free spotify premium. They (again, not me) say its pretty damn good, unbelievably good actually. They (NOT me) are pretty happy with it.
Would these people (that aren’t you) say that you can use your normal Spotify account or do you have to start over?
use your normal spotify account and use xmanager spotify https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager
to my knowledge there have never been any bans for it
xManager is a bit sus IMO because they claim their installer is open source while consisting of 15000 lines of unreadable machine-generated Java code: https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager/blob/main/app/src/main/java/com/xc3fff0e/xmanager/MainActivity.java
They are also quite opposed to publishing the source code of the actual Spotify patches for rather vague reasons: https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager/issues/324
Mind you, I still use it because it’s pretty much the only option apart from YouTube front ends on mobile, but I would advise being very careful with the permissions you give it.
Yikes! didn’t know that! Really wish that there were youtube front ends with last.fm support, because i would switch from spotify in an INSTANT if there were. if invidious or piped just added the ability to scrobble i would cancel my spotify right now
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I disagree: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
For most people a VPS would be cheaper and meet their actual needs.
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It can make such broad claims because it’s entirely based on facts. VPN’s are a trust-based system where the only evidence they don’t keep logs prior to getting a court order is “Trust us bro” and, historically, more of these services have been found to actually be storing records (or legally must store 30/60 days worth depending on their country of origin) than not.
If you would like a more in-depth and thorough explanation as a technical breakdown for non-technical people there is this blog post or even this blog if the “TL;DR” explanation didn’t cut it for you.
Regarding profit motives of VPN’s - see also:
- https://www.skadligkod.se/vpn/the-trustworthy-of-vpn-review-sites-and-how-affiliate-programs-affects-their-opinion/
- https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/
Here’s a real fun one!
This site: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/choosing-the-best-vpn-for-you/ was purchased and now redirects to this site: https://www.safetydetectives.com/best-vpns/
Safety Detectives was purchased by non-other than drum roll please. Kape Technologies. How do I know this? Well let’s take a look at the Wayback Machine for TOPS.net.
What was the original claim?
You may have started your search for a VPN by looking for “VPN Reviews” in your search engine of choice. if you had, you would have gotten page upon page of what seem to be harmless review sites, top 10 or blog style reviews of different VPN services. You may even be coming here for confirmation of what you were told on those sites. The sites making these recommendations are, in almost every case, paid by the services they review and recommend.
Who owns PIA, ExpressVPN, and CyberGhost? The “best 3 VPN’s” recommended by safetydetectives.com? Kape Technologies.
Why should this concern you?
We’ll start with PIA’s owner, Kape Technologies. Kape Technologies was formerly known as Crossrider before it was acquired by one Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire that has spent time in jail for insider trading. Crossrider itself never had that great a reputation itself, what with their primary product being a development platform through which they were frequently used by third parties to invade ad platforms to serve up malware, but whatever. Once acquired, the entire leadership structure was hollowed out, and the new Kape Technologies went on an acquisition spree. All of Kape’s purchased review sites suggest Kape owned VPN’s with “some consideration” given to Nord and Proton to maintain some kind of pretense at neutrality.
In short: Sagi is shady, his business is shady, and his business moves are shady, which makes the whole thing shady from top to bottom. Kape Technologies isn’t the only company to go on an acquisition spree for VPN’s either. Ask yourself why there is interest in consolidating VPN providers and how that data might be useful.
Every single modern VPN is a honeypot until proven otherwise. Mullvad is one of the few that has been able to prove otherwise.
@Nadya thats all well and good but but Mullvad is a 14 year old company that sells a VPN for $5 a month and has had their servers seized and their offices raided *this year* only to give the authorities *zero information*
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23692580/mullvad-vpn-raid-sweden-police
can you accept their is one genuine good guy VPN?
Read my post in its entirety. I specifically gave a shout to Mullvad at the end there. :P
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You don’t even need to “subscribe” to use Mullvad! You can just pay for how much you need. I don’t pay for it every month.
Hey Google, disable up selling.
Did you want to listen to that on YouTube music and start your free trial?
You’ll own nothing and be happy.
I hate that this has been co-opted by “Jews control the world” people, because it is an apt and concise way of describing how shitty everything is going; some car manufacturers are brazen enough to charge a subscription fee for headed seats, and it’s probably gonna stick and become the norm in maybe 10 years
It’s only gonna get worse…so we have that to look forward to
I don’t get what the alternative is supposed to be. You can’t make stuff like blockbuster quality movies on ads and/or donations alone. And between ads vs subscriptions, ads are iffy because you end up with sketchy or unethical advertisements. Plus ad blockers make it hard to sustain a business on just ads.
In an ideal world, nobody would need to “make a living” and we’d be able to offer more services for free. But we don’t have that ideal world. Musicians, animators, writers, programmers and more all need to get paid somehow.
It’s admittedly annoying how fractured subscriptions get, though. I miss when Netflix was the only streaming video subscription I needed. Now there’s half a dozen major services and they all want exclusive contracts to show certain movies and TV.
Personally, I’m happy to pay for the stuff I use a lot. Which includes stuff that I don’t even have to pay for (eg, I donated $20 to kbin). It does suck for stuff I only want a little of, though. eg, I don’t have any news subscriptions because I only check news sites here and there and it’s almost never the same site, too (mostly I get linked from sites like this). I want to see subscriptions become a bit more centralized, spanning multiple sites to account for this.
I just want to own stuff. I wanna pay for the series and music I like once and then have them forever. The problem with subscription gated media is that the subscription will eventually go away, and then so will the media. You will have paid hundreds over multiple years for it, but you will have nothing of it once it shuts down.
When cable TV was first a thing, it was advertised as extra content and with NO commercials. Pay us money, we’ll give you a big bundle of channels, and you won’t have to see commercials anymore.
Then they started adding more and more commercials in. Nowadays, a half-hour slot is 1/3rd commercials, and probably another 15% of that time is credits and “previously on” or “before the break” or pointless shitty padding
Then Netflix came out. Pay us a monthly fee, you can see all this content whenever you want, no commercials.
Then everyone wanted a slice of Netflix’s pie, and now we have a dozen separate streaming services you all have to pay monthly fees for.
The solution is Cable TV 2.0. Compile it all back into one service, charge a higher fee, cut all the ads out (again). Call it Fiber TV or something, idk. Otherwise people will realize it’s easier to pirate shit again than to navigate and pay for 8 different streaming services
i hate subsribsion BASED
Eh. Better than ads. At the end of the day streaming services, at least, are never going to be able to run on just donations.
I don’t pay for any of these.
Thank god you can play (and update) Zelda without online subscription. Once that is gone, i’ll go postal.
I keep a little note file so I can keep it from getting out of control.
A small suggestion, only because using monthly prices sometimes makes things seem even cheaper than they are. Change it from
$Monthly Cost
to$Monthly Cost ($Annual Cost)
. For example instead of $11/mo for Apple Music it would be $11 ($132) and instead of $33 it would be $33 ($396).Doing this caused me to re-evaluate a number of monthly subscriptions I had, find cheaper (sometimes even free/“good enough”) alternatives. Other times it would make me realize I should update annual charges if it was available if it was something I planned to keep around anyway and the annual price was a good enough deal. It also causes you to re-evaluate which price tier you pay for. Like for Nitro - do you really need the extra perks for $84/yr or do you only actually care about emotes and slightly larger file uploads and the $3/mo Basic package would be good enough? Often times people go “Oh it’s only $7/mo difference anyway” and get the better package but don’t actually use the extra features they’re paying for.