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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived

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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.
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    It is not age verification.

    It is privacy invading, morality policing, de-anonymizing, state surveillance.

    Nothing less.

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      to convert from hls (m3u8 streams) to mp4, you can also use ffmpeg:

      ffmpeg -i https://y.com/path/to/stream.m3u8 -c copy output.mp4

      • -i <input> specifies the input file
      • -c copy specifies that the contents should not be re-encoded (which would take a lot of time and computing power)
      • output.mp4 is the output file
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        Now this I can use.

        Vlc can be a bit… Tedious.

        Thanks.

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      yt-dlp is also insanely good for this - just install it, point it at the URL and it’ll usually figrue out how to grab the video without any fuss.

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      That is fucking amazing. Thank you!

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      Its easier to just sail the torrential high seas and get that 4k h265 quality shit that sites keep for paying members only. Once you know the models name its easy to get their entire collection.

      I professionally pron too.

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        Nowadays I’m also worried about acquiring a stealerlog collection as well.

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        ARRRR!

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      Shout out to yt-dlp, the absolute unit of software beneath lots of media scraping tools.

      You can also use MPV Video player, should be able to play many URLs you throw at it.

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      How would one do this on a mobile browser?

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        If you’re on Android you can use yt-dlp in Termux. A little inconvenient but it works.

      • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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        Chromium based browsers have an option that lets you view the source code by putting “view-source:” before the URL to see embedded videos

        So

        https://www.website.com/pagewithvideo

        becomes

        view-source:https://www.website.com/pagewithvideo

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          I never knew this. Thank you!

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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            No worries! In a lot of sites you’ll find the embeded video or picture in a link in the source code. However, I haven’t figured tried to get this to work on YouTube in mobile browsers so that might not work

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        I’d imagine you’d need a browser that has developer tools, which is far less common on mobile. A simpler solution would be to use a separate app that just takes the page URL and downloads the video for you, such as this one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

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          Kiwi Browser has developer tools

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