Google is an advertising company first, everything else second. Of course they shouldn’t be trusted, it’s safe to assume they’ll log and analyze the smallest piece of data

Money may not be able to buy everything, but it can buy wholesome. I want more money now.

The XZ topic was way more complicated than that and overly exaggerated by some people. Open source is still the closest thing we have to “safe by default”.

Still, as someone else stated, if you’re not hosting it’s not truly open source as you can’t really verify the actual code running behind the server.

My god i shouldn’t have read the thread you crossposted from

Glorious ship btw

Who said anything about torrenting something illegal 👀

As far as I’m concerned, everything i discuss here is for educational purposes only and even if you share info about “your” setup, it’s just hypothetical. Not your fault if someone you totally don’t know has the same setup you described and uses it for illegal activities.

Open Subtitles to the rescue

Earlier this week i ended up pirating some games i actually own because it was easier that way than the official one (which involved going through 3 freaking launchers for one game!), so there’s the answer lol.

Trusting someone for convenience isn’t ideal, but not everyone has the time and resources to audit, compile, and host a dumb frontend for yt. Most of the people here is good enough trusting literally anyone except a big tech company, including FOSS devs, the people who check the code, and public instances of their software. Even considering recent drama (solved by the community btw) I’d trust any FOSS project over google any day.

Once a software vendor demonstrates theyre untrustworthy, why would I risk using their products?

How are you using windows then? They’ve had innumerable security breaches, not to talk about how MS demonstrates again and again that the only thing they care about is money. Does “trustworthy” mean “american” or “only sells my data to the USA gov and other US companies” then sure, it is trustworthy as fuck.

Of course you will invalidate that with some mental gymnastics, but this same thing happens even with freaking usb (charge only, mind me) cables from aliexpress, with people saying they have fucking chips to spy on you. Again, racism.

And spare us from the sophist personal attack on people you disagree with

Try to put it however you want, but hating anything that comes from one place just because of that, then adding excuses is fucking racist.

except there’s no question of there being significant Russian efforts to meddle in the US and other countries.

And here comes the grand patriotic justification for racism! If you really don’t have shit to say about the actual software, just block me or something and spare me from your presence :)

I haven’t found a serious critic that didn’t rely on fucking racism yet. If the only real argument is “rUsSian cOmPAny bAD” but you’re ok with USA companies, you’re just braindead.

I don’t even use windows for that same reason, but if a windows user asks me, based on past experiences with low end computers (where you can actually tell the diference), I’d always recommend kaspersky for performance and malwarebytes for precision.

Pro tip: Downvotes without arguments only prove my point.

Except FOSS explicitly implies the user is free (as in freedom, not 0$), and the software isn’t a product or service, but a tool.

That line only applies when a non-free service or software that’s supposed to be meant for profit doesn’t have a clear money income. Don’t compare “oh how generous is google for giving me free email and drive for no shady reasons at all” to “i host my own email and cloud using foss projects”.

Also, windows is basically spyware with a bit of unoptimized OS on top and you still (should) pay for it.

Oh i also agree with that, just wanted to clarify that

Extremely case where I’m going to defend windows; but Ms Defender never killed performance in a pc even if i had a low-end one.

Considering all the bloatware windows has, OP would be better off fighting like literally every other program except Defender…

It would make more sense to change that to “Community managers are managed by contributors”. Less effort for them and potentially better moderation.

What a bunch of greedy clowns. Not only that’s illegal to do afaik, it’s not even technically possible. Hell even if they could, that would accomplish absolutely nothing.

The only thing they could’ve try to pull was to ask spanish ISPs to block IPTV altogether, but then again, easily solved with a VPN. Stupid fight to pick if you ask me.

Nobody taught me, so I’m not teaching anyone. Nobody banned me from doing it tho, so there’s my answer. Piracy is a consequence of freedom, among other things.

No it is not by a long fucking shot. Our “socialist” party is NOT socialist, they’re just “left” wing corrupted liberals. We basically only have [insert color]-wing corrupted liberals, anyone stating otherwise is just too deep in propaganda.

I’m spanish, never even thought about searching for pirate iptv streams (just used some official ones).

Just turned on some random free vpn and started to search for pirate iptv streams; 100% counterproductive ban lol.

Edit: also jellyfin can get iptv along with my super legal media collection. Again, why? If you ban something, ban the streams not the client…

Now this is the way

Blame apple for that. IPhone has this proprietary messaging app pre-installed which is probably super convinient for the ecosystem but uses some obsolete SMS protocol to communicate with android phones. I think recently this has gotten better, but only because beeper and the EU pressing on them