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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 283 points 11 months ago

The ancient trials redefined for the modern age

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 148 points 11 months ago

Really fitting since usually the correct one isnt any of those. It'll be the non-flashy, plain text "download here" link.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 85 points 11 months ago

KNIGHT: He chose... poorly.

Indy studies the array of download buttons.

ELSA: It would not be made ~~out of gold~~ with Javascript.

Indy picks up another cup, a simple earthenware jug.

INDY: That’s the ~~ cup~~ text link of ~~a carpenter~~ of raw HTML.

He and Elsa exchange a look.

INDY: There’s only one way to find out.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ublock origin makes short work of these lol

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Me with my element blocker "Yes it is now fuck off <3"

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

This guy blocks

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Girl but yes

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[-] Poop@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

The real ancient trials were on the 1990s warez sites where you'd have to hunt for a 2 pixel square link on a giant page of porn ads and other trickery. Then you could get part 42 of 78 of a .rar for some game. Repeat another 77 times and wait a week for it to download on 33.6k and you got a free game!

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Back when I had this problem, I got past it by hovering over the links and buttons and looking at the little url preview in the corner. The real one will either be on the same domain as the website or it will be something like gofile. The fake ones will go to domains like ads.doubleclick.net and ofksheugj.info.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

the real trial always seems to actually be installing firefox with ublock

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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 109 points 11 months ago

More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Can't talk about the seedy anime websites, but youtube-mp3 conversion is so easily done yourself without havaing to visit any virus-pushing sites once you figure out how.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 53 points 11 months ago

It's a hell of a lot more convenient to go to a shady site with an adblocker installed than install/update Python and a couple command line packages before manually performing conversion yourself.

[-] CalOtsu@kbin.social 29 points 11 months ago

You can yt-dlg right off the microsoft store on windows which is just a straight up GUI for yt-dlp.

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[-] waigl@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"A couple command line packages", well, since both yt-dlp and ffmpeg are command line tools and two technically qualifies as "a couple", this is technically correct, but making it seem like much more of a big deal than it is at the same time.

Also, you do not have to install Python for any of this. Never mind having Python installed is a good idea anyway.

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[-] eah@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

yt-dlp has the -x option to extract the audio, and as far as I can tell it doesn't reencode which is fast. Ripping music from youtube is a single command. yt-dlp -x url

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[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This has the same vibes as one of those commercials that tries to sell a convoluted single use kitchen tool by showing a bunch of people too disingenuously incompetent to handle the established standard, actually simple, way of doing it.

https://youtu.be/qM4zMofsI7w?

This sort of thing. Make the simple problem seem impossible to solve, so the useless product feels more necessary.

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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months ago

More people need to learn about yt-dlp and ffmpeg

I don't listen to hip-hop

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Y to the T to the DLP to the FF Motherfuckin PEG

I know, it even scans

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[-] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

From my time at Tumblr and DeviantArt I am really familiar with stuff like ffmpeg, but I don't think it is the type you are referring too.

[-] waigl@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Now I'm wondering what else ffmpeg could mean... Maybe female-female-male threesome with pegging?

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Now there's a rabbit hole!

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago

gonna guess Final Fantasy Male Impregnation.

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago

I usually use the trick to download YouTube videos using vlc media player, that gives mp4s, which one can get an mp3 from if for some reason I want an mp3 and not mp4 using audacity or something

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I recently needed a QR code generated, and for the life of me, I couldn’t find a website that wouldn’t either require me to sign up, or generate the QR code to their link shortener service.

Finally resorted to logging into my headless Linux server and installing some QR code package.

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[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

The seedy anime sites are noticeably nicer than any legit site I've tried. Crunchyroll is a worse website than most pirate sites(assuming noting has improved since years ago). You just need an adblocker for the nuke my PC button next to the video.

[-] Nanomerce@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

you can also use VLC to find the video source itself and just download it there.

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Someone's using yt-dlp and ffmpeg wrong if they're getting ads.

[-] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 46 points 11 months ago

Also the pirate movie sites that you can't use without adblocker because without it wherever you click it opens a new window.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

It's like a normie/noob filter at this point

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[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

cobalt.tools is FOSS with no trackers or ads and can download from most places that matter.

[-] approxamatrix@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

It's cobalt.tools ,you mistyped it

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[-] Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

When I search this I get vacuum and gripper tools.

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[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

The faerie folk have moved onto the internet.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

We've been here for aaaaages 🌈

[-] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago

You rang

[-] CamWiseOwl@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

It is the Otherworld after all

[-] CompN12@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 20 points 11 months ago

It reminds me of trying to find ROMs online as a kid, the link is almost always the smallest link, and almost never the five green DOWNLOAD buttons.

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Who still uses that shit.. Like y'all forget NewPipe is a thing

[-] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Newpipe for Android and jdownloader on PC. Could even use vlc to find the direct download link. Never need to worry about where I'm downloading yt vids again.

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

On my phone I just download through NewPipe, and on my PC I use Parabolic

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Adblockers remove all those messages and ads. You'd be surprised at exactly how boring those pages look without 12 different download buttons, an ad for McAfee, and two banners about VPNs.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they're doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like its almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I'm here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have a little app that lets me send it a Spotify playlist and then it goes and finds the matching song on YouTube, converts it, and downloads it all in a big batch. Took forever to fuckin' find and it was of course on a site like that. Been a while since I used it; probably doesn't even work anymore. I tried like 5 others before finding that one, and they were all broken.

The dumb thing is I only wanted it because even though I use the local file thing and still pay for Spotify, it wouldn't actually play anything whenever I didn't have Internet access, making it's own built in system of "downloading" and playing files locally useless.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've had a good experience with youpak, you just take the url from whatever YouTube video you're on and change "tube" of YouTube.com/shegaiabfvtbrbw to "pak" so it's youpak.com/whateverwhateverwhatever and the dropdown right at the top has the download or convert to MP3 buttons right there.

I do use Firefox with an adblocker so idk if it's a cancerous site otherwise.

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