Is youtube-dl even able to bypass age restriction without an account? It wasn't last time I tried it, but that's been a while.
Is Hooktube a fraud?
Benjamin Cruz
Xavier Nelson
When you archive a page, your IP is being sent to the the website you archive as though you are using a proxy (in X-Forwarded-For header). This feature allows websites (e.g shops or the sites with weather forecast) target your region, not mine.
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Kayden Wood
Oh that, that's the fallback for when youtube-dl doesn't fucking work because certain videos have a kind of DRM that doesn't let you download them. Usually it's the music videos with the "VEVO" watermark. It is, as you said, literally just a proxy for google video at that point.
If you look, other non-DRM'd videos don't use the proxy.
Evan Jenkins
Only good for bypassing age/geo restrictions without making an account/IP hopping.
As far as I'm aware, there was a mild outrage from creators a few years ago because Google admitted that embeds don't give views, as that's easier to bot that their own website, so Hooktube for embeds seems redundant.
Jacob King
Every site on the www uses CDNs, it would be stupid not to because no one would use a site that loads like it's on a 56k modem.
Instead of kvetching use a VPN or TOR, then you can kvetch about VPNs and TOR aren't really private either.
Hooktube strips out ads and the tracking scripts on Youtube so you're just using Youtube-dl on a webpage basically.
It's much better than using Youtube directly.
William Taylor
But Decentraleyes works for avoiding that, right?
Landon Adams
Is there any proof of Google spying through embeds? I don't believe the js changes when you open the embed, but I may be wrong.
Also, another issue with Hooktube is, despite them removing Google's ads, he replaces it with his own on the sidebar in the same location as Google.
Jaxson Barnes
If I want to watch videos in 4k I should be able to if they're available, shill.
>addons.mozilla.org
>addons.mozilla.org
So Hooktube can't bypass country blocks.
Searx and Ixquick do not load JS or search results from Google directly. They load it in their servers and serve you the curated links.
Hooktube is just a wrapper around YouTube. It doesn't work half as well as Searx or Ixquick because those two don't load Google's shit into your PC, and Google does not log your IP or search queries unlike with Hooktube.
Fake and gay. Nobody cares or would care about Hoootube. Hooktube itself uses YouTube's APIs to search shit and load videos. If YouTube cared about Hooktube, they could easily revoke the usage, throttle videos or refuse to load altogether.
Elijah Perry
YouTube is laggy with shitload of bloated JS animations and loading shit.
hooktube is buttery smooth for me.
Thats a good enough reason to use hooktube.
Carter Hernandez
no.
Google should be able to know the webpage you're on and what video you're watching with an embed of course if that's what you mean by spying, Hooktube doesn't have any ads as far as I know.