For anyone looking to dip their toes in the seven seas
Soulseek is a peer to peer media sharing network akin to limewire
yt-dlp i a command line Youtube video/audio downloader that does hq
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
KissAnime for streaming anime: https://kissanime.com.ru/
Similar sites that let you stream movies/shows/manga are aggregated on sites like TheBestCouchPotatoList:
You can find most free streaming sites through google/duckduckgo searches or pirating communities like the r/Piracy sub on reddit
Anything else can be found on torrent sites, which are usually aggregated on sites like TheProxyBay or r/piracy
66 Comments
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 357d
What I find fascinating is how ad blocking is now being equated with piracy. Yeah, I get that ads pay bills and revenue supports sites, but holy shit, ads have gotten exponentially more intrusive and frequent than they ever were. If I have to watch a 30 second ad to see a 1 minute youtube video, I'm not going to bother. It's not a reasonable burden. If a website truly wants to keep out people with ad blockers, they can limit access to their website to browsers that don't work with ad blockers.
Prox@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 357d
Adblocking is security and I will die on that hill.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 357d
What? You don't want fake direct download links? I like my page to be covered in random green download icons. Thank you very much. My grandma loves getting her identity stolen, and so do I.
krunklom@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 357d
Hi, it'a me, you! You won't believe what I bought with your credit card today, so glad you treated myself.
Patches@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 356d
My wife kept on using Chrome on her PC after Ublock was removed from Chrome.
In less than 30 days I had to reformat. Literally had a dancing lady clippy, and 3 "App" stores pop up when you hit windows key. It felt like it was 1998 again. If it was a human being, I would have killed it.
She has had that PC just fine for 7 years now with no issues. I guess she's got out of practice for looking for the real download button....
She finally relented and swapped to Firefox.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 357d
I’m mostly just frustrated that humanity agrees that our attention is something to be wrested away from us constantly.
Cannot deal with this bombardment of advertising.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 357d
No. The rich oligarchs are coercing the working class into accepting their oppressive attention economy.
Don't let them trick you into believing their bullshit.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 357d
Everywhere I look, even on the internet, I see people saying “the ads make it possible for me to watch this,” and it’s a phrase that I hate.
The rich oligarchs have propagandized everyone into accepting the oppressive attention economy. It’s already over, it happened.
Of course, I have the attention economy of North Korea minus Eritrea, divided by the entire EU: completely and absolutely broke, no attention anywhere, certainly none in the attention budget.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 357d
Obedience isn't the same as acceptance though. Systems of oppression would not be such if the majority of people could ignore them.
Yes it's happening, but we still have the power to stop it.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d
My apologies. I didn’t intend for my words to compete with yours.
I’ll go downvote my comments.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 357d
Bruh I feel where you're coming from! If anything talking to you has reminded me that we need to speak up!
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 357d
It’s not just that. Being assaulted with multiple scam calls and messages every single day is horrible for our psyche.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d
I just don't ever answer my phone anymore.
It's almost always a scam
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 357d
I have to for my business :/
piefood@feddit.online · 1 pts · 357d
I use an app called silence which only allows calls from numbers in my address-book. It's been a life-saver
saltesc@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 357d
I mostly watch YT on my TV but through Smart Tube. Watch all my other stuff with Streamio.
Every now and then the YouTube app is mistakingly opened and my lounge room is invaded by a company trying to align with me to buy a thing. It's very cringe and intrusive. Back in the old days with commercial breaks on TV, you would just mute and go have a break. But this is different and I don't know how people do it. Blockers are a must for security and sanity.
ctry21@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 357d
Not just the time theft but they have become unreasonably privacy invading. When I still used Reddit last year, despite having targeted ads disabled & Android apps supposedly being sandboxed, I got ads related to my workplace after accepting a job offer, car ads after installing a used car sales app, and ads for snake oil related to a chronic health condition I have that I'd been researching. Now that I'm off corporate social media and have pi-hole running & uBlock origin in my browser, I haven't seen a single targeted ad all year. When I deleted my Meta accounts I requested my data first and I could see the companies I had bought from that then told Meta I'd been shopping there which was really eye-opening as to how bad it is.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 356d
That's about the ratio for US network TV - a half hour slot has close to 10 minutes of commercials.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 356d
On some older shows you can see this start to happen in realtime as you watch through the back catalogue. The oldest episodes will be like 26 mins long, and if the show ran long enough, the newer ones are like 18 mins. Utterly insane to me that people just accepted this shit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 43 pts · 357d
I was actually thinking about how there are tons of memes I do not and will not ever understand because the shared experience is of seeing an online ad campaign, and I've been using ad blockers since at least 1996.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 357d
Whenever I see an ad interruption on someone else's YouTube or something, I'm aghast and surprised, and they act like it's nothing 😅
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 26 pts · 357d
It takes a great deal of mental strength to not mock someone and gloat about your adblockers when you see someone else sit through ads
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 357d
I wish sponsorblock worked on chromecast...
Stez827@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 357d
You could always get a fire stick and put smart tube on it
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
Nvidia Shield is what I use and it allows me play my local media files.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
I didn't know about this. I bet I can get it on my chromecast.
ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 357d
Firestick or Onn TV box
aliser@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 357d
welcome to 2025 where you pay and STILL have ads.
dovahking@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 357d
Kissanime? Are we back in 2010? It has horrible ui and don't think the original is even alive anymore. Instead, try miruro, hianime, animepahe or just go to everythingmoe.com and pick a website that suits your needs.
serenissi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
isn't that hentai?
edit: oh that's hamine. my bad
Nelots@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 356d
Seriously. I feel like they made a huge mistake with that name lol.
serenissi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
might not be a mistake :)
shitdoesntwork@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 356d
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Remeber to also arm yourself :3
*if you're in a country where you can
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
You can in every country, if you have some money saved up.
LongboardingLad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d
Can we be cell besties?
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 356d
Watched a YouTube video from my work laptop the other day, it averaged at 1 ad/minute over the course of a 10 minutes video. This is strictly unusable.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 356d
I was over at a friend's house and they were watching YouTube stuff on their tv, and in a 30min video it had 4 different ad breaks with 2 ads per break.
So 8 ads for a 30min video
It made me not want to even watch what he was showing me, idk how they can live like that
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
The SmartTube app is the only way to watch Youtube on TV.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 356d
I have a little app I've made that serves only to offer me a Download From Clipboard button.
Using Freetube I copy the URL of what i want to watch, click the button, which then uses yt-dlp to download the video in an Apple TV-friendly format, which it then drops into my Jellyfin folder.
Its SO MUCH nicer than having to use the regular YouTube app, and has the added benefit of removing the temptation to mindlessly scroll, looking for something else to watch.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 356d
Personally, that’s why I don’t install an adblocker on my phone, to encourage myself to use my computer instead. Using YT without adblocker is excruciating
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 357d
Youtube is probably the biggest piracy site that exists. Nowadays many stuff is hidden from copyright bots by having titles of movies, audio books etc that don't match the original.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 357d
If you never left Firefox, neither of them have ever had ads.
cabillaud@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 357d
Unfortunately, Firefox has become really slow, especially at work, in my case.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 356d
Well I wouldn't recommend torrenting at work.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 356d
Or if you've switched to Vivaldi soon enough.
MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 357d
DuckduckGo seems to block all the youtube ads for me.
Fully recommend.
Zunon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d
kissanime just brought back so much nostalgia for me, the first place I started browsing and watching anime on back in 2009.
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 357d
Possibly unpopular take, besides google corporate greed, YT hosts more stuff then pirating sites, unpopular things are less likely to be pirated, so pirate repos are somewhat curated. Less content, and no leeching executives means less costs means less ads needed.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 357d
Actually, I mostly pirate things I can't find to stream with a reasonably-priced subscription, or without ads, and unless we're talking 15-plus-year-old shows or "animes" I've heard about that turn out to be Hentai, I generally find what I'm looking for, with seeds.
Hell, I'm sure if I could be bothered to find a Hentai-centric pirate site, or joined a private tracker, I wouldn't have a problem finding anything for free.
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 357d
When I mean unpopular I mean like a random 7 hour minecraft stream vod watched by 1 reviewer, a 32 episode podcast with 15 views, etc. Hardly anyone is looking for those, but YT hosts it, and it costs them. Alot of that stuff wont be found on other file share websites, thus its not taking up space or adding costs. I dont mean that they are limited, I agree you can find about anything in the right place, including some of those vods with 15 views.
dkppunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
Wow! I’m so happy to see someone mention SoulSeek. I was introduced to that almost 20 years and I’m glad to see it’s still around. I’m going to have to start using it again.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
I’ve been using SoulSeek for a very long time. I even host some music on there. Keep it going!
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 357d
*fewer
I’m sorry
bricklove@midwest.social · 2 pts · 357d
Historically using "less" for countable things was acceptable. There are examples from Old English 1000 years ago. I like this guy's explanation where it's more of a squares and rectangles relationship than a squares and circles one.
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
How dare you
untorquer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
Ads is both finite and infinite in the sense that you may count ads, but their volume can also be measured in fractional/continuous ways such as screen space or video length.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 356d
imo fmhy(dot)net is way better for finding resources
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
I didn't know about that one, thanks! :3
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d
I'm trying to get back on the ol' sea, but all of the websites I know are gone or untrustworthy
If anybody knows how to find a replacement, could you please DM me?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 357d
Nice try, cop.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 357d
I added some recommendations to the description of the post :3
ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 357d
FMHY.net
slampisko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
https://rentry.co/megathread
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 357d
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 356d
I mean, the really good sites tend to have no ads at all.
Alteon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
Hydrahd.io
If you want an absolutely awesome free streaming service. Most movies in HD. Subtitles are fantastic if you need them. Most shows are available next day for streaming.
HandsomePotatoe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d
Kissanime, going to check that one out