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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 13:50:57 EDT Strypey

   Just discovered #HookTube. Take any YT video, replace "youtube" in the URL with "hooktube", and watch it without any of goOgle's proprietary JS or spyware knowing you're there. For example:
   https://hooktube.com/watch?v=h3UeUnRxE0E

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 14:11:55 EDT Strypey

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      I've seen a few comments online claiming that HookTube is proprietary, but AFAICT it's free code under either GPLv3+ or "MIT":
      https://hooktube.com/licenses

      1. Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 14:27:37 EDT Gwmngilfen

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         @strypey hmm, I feel an entry in my local DNS resolver coming on... :)

         1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 08:57:26 EDT Strypey

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            @gwmngilfen hold fire on that, see:
            https://social.netzkombinat.su/objects/6da208bb-08ac-4998-a432-93964b1e5583

   2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 15:02:25 EDT Bob Jonkman

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      Sadly, the truly anonymous Hooktube is no more. I think they were threatened with legal action around the beginning of July. Hooktube is now no more than a YouTube OEmbed in their website, which gives all the surveillance demographics to Google. See the author's @swack Tweet at https://twitter.com/swack/status/1018665375364501506
      
      It's too bad -- the original Hooktube had facilities for downloading the video in various encodings and resolutions, audio-only, &c. For that, there's still youtube-dl https://youtube-dl.org/
      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 08:43:11 EDT Strypey

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         @bobjonkman ok, so is the source code to the original version of the site still available? If so, maybe someone could set up a version outside US jurisdiction? Is that what invidio.us is?

         1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Aug-2018 17:38:36 EDT Bob Jonkman

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            Sorry. 1) I don't know. 2) Don't think that will help. 3) Never heard of it.
            1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 02:58:34 EDT Strypey

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               @bobjonkman 2) goOgle's threats of legal action are much less intimidating if you're hosted outside the reach of US law. 3) I'm told that invidio.us does what HookTube used to do. It works for me with all JS from goOgle and YT blocked by #NoScript.

   3. Poebelkaiser (nipos@social.netzkombinat.su)'s status on Sunday, 26-Aug-2018 17:45:32 EDT Poebelkaiser

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      @strypey Use http://invidio.us instead.That's what Hooktube used to be.
   4. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 08:51:22 EDT Strypey

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      I've been informed that due to legal threats by goOgle corp, #HookTube is no longer anonymous and their download system no longer works (refers to third party service instead), and that #Invidio.us is a better choice for those purposes.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 27-Aug-2018 08:54:04 EDT Strypey

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         HookTube is still a lightweight front-end for YT, that doesn't autoplay videos, or try to get you to watch sensational bollox related vaguely to the video you just watched. So there's that. I'm presuming it also doesn't make users use proprietary JS in their browser? Although the embed system might result in downloading some JS from YT. Anyone know for sure?