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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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LeoPanthera ◴[25 Aug 25 04:20 UTC] No.45010166[source]▶
I've been downloading YouTube videos for the past few years. Not randomly, from specific channels I select. Today I passed 12100 videos.

It's getting harder. YouTube keeps making yt-dlp work worse. (And I started when it was youtube-dl!) I limit my downloader script to no more than 2 videos at a time, every 3 hours, hopefully in order not to trip any rate limits. All good so far.

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1. totetsu ◴[25 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45010858[source]▶
When I try to capture a few friends videos of events I had run from instagram stories with yt-dlp, I get nice friendly warning that to avoid my account being restricted or deleted i should stop using tools.
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2. input_sh ◴[25 Aug 25 08:32 UTC] No.45011597[source]▶
I use a browser extension that simply gives me the download button in the interface and haven't experienced any such warnings: https://github.com/TheKonka/instagram-download-browser-exten...

Thought you might find it helpful.