Like Lemmy or Mastodon, BlueSky was made with the idea of federation. While BlueSky is not there yet, federated services are inherently very easy to scrape.

Maybe it’s time for people to understand that anything they post/vote/comment/like should be considered public domain.

Google has been paying Firefox since before Chrome existed.

Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

Where do you live? If you live in Northern America, or Europe, you most probably are not in the 1% that have the lowest carbon footprint in the world.

I don’t want to remove any credibility or minimize any of your effort! I wish people would take it as seriously as you are, but just existing in a modern society is horrible for the environment.

Is the database of websites installed locally in the extension or is it calling home for every website I visit?

Let’s not build anything because there are no users. There are no users if we don’t build anything.

It works on Android, but I don’t believe it works on iOS.

For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.

Because of the CORS settings on Google’s servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:

• By opening the video in a new page/tab that only contains the video, with the YouTube player, which defeats the purpose a bit.
• By installing an addon or an app on your device.

Fair enough, that’s interesting. I assume this only applies to the non-web clients. On the web, it would not be possible. You can verify by looking at the outgoing network requests on this random video for example: https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qKMcKQCQxxI

I’m pretty confident that you are wrong.

Invidious and YouTube piped (and LibreTube) by default load the videos server-side, as opposed to GrayJay, NewPipe or Smarttube.

It has advantages (mostly that your IP address is not shared with YouTube, and it allows users from countries where YouTube is blocked to still access it) and inconvenients (much harder to keep up when YouTube actively seeks to block them).

You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.

GrayJay is pretty good!

LibreTube is also a good one. Basically an app for piped

Unfortunately, I think that while ad blockers won’t work as well, they will still work good enough that most won’t bother making the switch.

https://blog.getadblock.com/how-adblock-is-getting-ready-for-manifest-v3-6cf21a7884f6

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1067als/comment/j3h00xj/

The main issue I see is the slow update of filters (which require an extension update). This might make YouTube win the cat and mouse game. Where YouTube updates(ed?) their blocking detection multiple time a day.

It’s complicated.

It would be crazy expensive to run an attack of this size for years.

There is no way a DDoS on the website in affecting the crawler. Also, running a DDoS attack of this size costs a lot of money (if you rent the network, if you own it it costs money as lost sales). No one is giving AI control over a DDoS network to just fuck around.

There is no domain name associated with the IPs.

Most importantly, usually, DDoS attacks use infected devices (PCs, mobile phones, smart fridges, shady browser addons etc…) to get many ip addresses and devices/locations and attack from everywhere at once.