It’s been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file

Yes the main .py is quite a pile of code 🙂

It’s one of those projects that grew organically and never got reorganized. I maintain a niche open-source project like that that has a few dozen kilobyte main Python file and I’m ashamed of it. But then it’s so niche I don’t really want to spend the time reorganizing it.

yt-dlp would benefit from that though…

You guys ever wonder if maybe if the answer is to stop stealing s*?

There are two ways to be honest with normal companies:

1/ You pay them and they stop monetizing your data
2/ You don’t patronize their services and you choose a competitor instead

Unfortunately, with Google as with most other surveillance capitalism monopolies, it doesn’t work that way:

1/ If you don’t pay Google, they violate your privacy and abuse your data. If you pay them, they don’t stop: you just gave them extra money because you’re gullible.
2/ Youtube is a virtual monopoly. There is no valid competition to speak of. And unfortunately, a lot of the societal discourse now happens on Youtube. So it’s kind of unavoidable.

Therefore, Google being the abusive monopoly that it is, you have no way to deal with the essential service they provide honestly and pay your fair share - which I honestly would gladly do - without compromising your privacy. They put themselves in a position to be this abusive.

Therefore, I consider my duty towards paying honestly for Youtube waived. That’s why I’m happy to pay for a FUTO license for the work they do with the Grayjay client, but I’ll never give Google a cent: FUTO respects me while Google spits in my face.

The cynic in me immediately thinks it’s a honeypot to trap privacy-conscious individuals.

I’ll look it up. But I suspect it’ll be just another case of a company pinky-swearing to respect your privacy, like Apple.

Really? Last I tried it - not very long ago - it refused to do anything without an account.

It does but the UI is terrible for TV. It’s totally unusable without an external keyboard and mouse.

SmartTube doesn’t do local subscriptions, and that’s a big no-no for me.

I wasn’t aware there was a x64 Grayjay desktop app. I’ll check it out. thanks!

If I ever get oppressed for my speech

You already are.

Ask yourself: can you say or post absolutely everything that falls under free speech - i.e. not calls to violence of civil disturbance? Do you feel like you can safely talk about all subjects without being cancelled or sued?

As soon as you start thinking twice about whether you can say something safely, that’s censorship. Censorship isn’t someone breathing over your neck saying “Be careful what you say”, it’s you self-censoring so you don’t get into trouble.

I saw this coming in 1999 when Scott McNealy inadvertantly spilled the beans on what his hateful industry was up to, and I have been extremely cautious about what I’ve been posting ever since. People have called me a paranoid crackpot for decades. I guess I hate to tell you I told you so…

You need to ask yourself two questions:

• Who’s pushing AI - be it in healthcare or any other sector?
• For what purpose?

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out it’s not about smarter care, and it’s not in your best interest either.