30 minutes edition.

A thread dedicated for various tips and tricks on how to bypass restrictions implemented by big tech companies. Made with tourists from other boards in mind. Feel free to add more bypasses, adblockers etc.
>How do I block ads on youtube?
Your options are:
- Ublock Origin (on browsers with manifest v2 support, like firefox or some chromium fork that still supports it)
- alternative clients (pipepipe,freetube,revanced, smarttub)
- youtube downloader (such as yt-dlp)

https://ublockorigin.com/
https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
https://freetubeapp.io/
https://revanced.app/
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

>How do I make throwaway accounts on websites that require phone number?
Buy a disposable number that costs less than a dollar on average. You can use smspva or onlinesim. Merchants often accept anonymous payment methods.

https://smspva.com/
https://onlinesim.io/

A few warnings about those services:
- AVOID using those for serious accounts
- DO NOT use Telegram and similar applications without cloud password/2FA, since they might get recycled
- DO NOT use free numbers, they are most likely not going to work and just waste your time.

>How do I bypass paywalls on news sites?
use bypass paywalls clean. You need to install it manually.
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Additional resources:

front-ends
https://hyperpipe.codeberg.page/
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#youtube
extensions
https://github.com/Seneral/YoutubeAutotranslateCanceler/
user scripts:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/34613-youtube-multi-downloader-v9-2-yt1s-com-no-ads-new-layout-for-yt
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/513303-scribd-bypass
https://greasyfork.org/it/scripts/403170-bypass-filecrypt
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370410-pinterest-open-original-image

Feel free to post your suggestions!

>>105599983 (OP)
How do I bypass government wanting my money? I worked hard for it, why would I give them a cut.

been going down this rabbit hole a lot lately, trying explore some ways that involve truly 0 corporate tracking (understandably involving severe compromises)

a few questions for the class:

1. what, if anything, can be done about sites that block VPNs? considering residential proxies but curious if any anons have tried these before

2. What about captchas? It's great that some new, sane sites are using stuff like anubis and go-away, but mCaptcha, google, and cloudflare all require either fingerprinting, ML training, or some other invasive technology. Are these just off the table?

3. anyone successfully implement "invisible" mobile internet access? from what I understand this can't be done with a SIM, and has to rely on using public wifi and tunneling it all through something bound to your device's interface

not extremely on topic but it goes hand-in-hand with this sort of stuff. thread is still young so I'll try to answer questions on accessing services too when they come up.

>>105601090
You're too retarded for your own good

>>105600944
>How do I bypass government wanting my money?
start business, register it in tax haven with good privacy laws, use of trusts etc. if it's good enough for billionaires it's good enough for the rest of us.

>>105601090
>. what, if anything, can be done about sites that block VPNs?
use unknown ip ranges.
>Are these just off the table?
yep
> anyone successfully implement "invisible" mobile internet access?
never heard of a phone not working on wifi because it doesn't have a sim. is that what you're talking about?

>>105601090
>anubis
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop vibes

>>105601120
elaborate

>>105601121
I mean being able to access the internet on-the-go anonymously. SIMs are off the table due to GPS tracking, so you'll need to rely on using public wifi, correct?

>>105601195
to be clear I understand that using Tor or some shit on a SIM doesn't mean the provider knows anything about my traffic. I mean to say I don't want any provider knowing anything about me at all, so linking my address to the card or giving a real IMEI to a tower is not ideal

>>105601090
1 - residential proxies
2 - chink captcha services
3 - sim cards registered on a mule
Its all really that simple.

>>105601499
figured as much, ty. I guess the rest is just opsec

>>105600944
>How do I bypass government wanting my money? I worked hard for it, why would I give them a cut.

1. Start a business, have it make money (the hard part)

2. Create another business in a no tax for businesses country

3. Have company #2 bill Company #1 the exact amount in profits you make in a year

4. Now you can truefully say that company #1 made no profits and it will pay now taxes

5. Company #2 now has all the profit, but doesn't owe any taxes

>>105601195
>so you'll need to rely on using public wifi, correct?
if you can't get an anonymous sim yeah. mobile vpn + tor. you're set. public wifi will probably restrict things like tor or completely forbid it. that's one downside. another downside is cameras around the place, if they have them. get access to a wifi point without being in visual distance / coverage by cameras. then there's all the shit that runs in the phone trying to talk to the outside world that will also leak your shit, they need to be disabled or firewalled. things to consider.

>>105599983 (OP)
Add AdNauseam to the OP. Hurt their wallets

>>105601773
>Hurt their wallets
How's life over there in the boycott land? Had any corporations bend the knee for you yet?

>>105601195
>>105601618
I suggest flashing a different OS to the phone as well. I have no trust in Android.
Also, would a hopper, though inconvenient, be ideal?

>>105601618
what do you mean by "anonymous SIM"? That sounds like an oxymoron. As for the rest, to be polite, you can probably assume that if someone is worried about SIM triangulation, they're already using grapheneOS.

also, I'm curious as to why you'd consider cameras? "hey that guy bought a coffee around the same time there was some encrypted traffic on port 22, let's call the cops" doesn't sound realistic

>>105601840
bet you bought a Switch 2

>>105601863
Let me guess, it's selling just fine despite some controversies and some Anon making a personal army request thread about it the other day?

>>105601840

>not giving money to corporations that hate you for products that hurt you is lame, actually

>>105601773
>AdNauseam
NO
this is a bad extension.

>>105601883
point is, all the people complaining about Nintendo's terrible practices and copyright monopoly still pay them for inadequate products. It's about not encouraging Nintendo to continue doing what they're doing.
Piracy has never been easier so there's no reason to support them; I'll never understand why people who complain the loudest never straight out tell everyone to just emulate everything.

>>105601917
Retarded misinformation. AdNauseam lost Google over 3 billion the first year it released because at the end of the year the ad companies request all their money back that they sent due to fake clicks. The business owners retain all their money because by law they're allowed to get it back. The extension only hurts Google because only they actually lose money. You would know that if you just watched their short video on the site or read anything related to it, corporate stooge.

>>105601911
The point wasn't about not giving money to corporations. It was about "hurting their wallets" by installing a browser addon that actively fucks with ads. Nice attempt at twisting it, however.

>>105601937
>all the people complaining about Nintendo's terrible practices and copyright monopoly still pay them
Exactly. So why isn't that enough to demonstrate that your petty protests and boycotts have no measurable effect?
>Piracy has never been easier so there's no reason to support them
You want all the Netflix subscribers give you reasons why they'd rather pay for a subscription instead of pirating for free? People don't give a fuck if they're being overcharged for subpar products and services that can be revoked at any time, lmao

>>105601984
AdNauseam does hurt their wallets and just because people are stupid and hypocritical doesn't mean there shouldn't be a push to hard these companies due to bad practices. I'm not going to lay down, shut up, and take it just because other idiots are.

>>105601984
ngl I don't even know what extension they're talking about, maybe it is shit. I'm just saying, believing that not giving a corporation money must be a performative gesture is an indicator of a propaganda-compromised mind

>>105602030
Laying down and shutting up "hurts" their business just as much as posting revolutionary slogans or complaining on a basket weaving forum does.

>>105602035
That's an opinion you could have expressed without appearing to strawman someone else's argument.

>>105602113
yeah but most people post on 4chan to flex their egos and dunk on other anons, not to critically engage with other's ideas. are you new?

>>105602113
You're not even getting paid for this. Why run cover for multi-billion dollar corporations who hate you? Even if it takes away $1 or $2 if you get a buddy to do the same then that's absolutely worth it. Of course, to put in perspective, it would be a few million in lost profits but it still holds true. You're worse than a janny, you don't even get recognition for your corporate worship.

>>105602137
>are you new?
Far from it. I seemingly just don't like the idea of conforming to the perceived "cultural identity" of this website.

>>105602149
Honestly? Because I am fascinated by autists who think installing a browser extension makes them some kind of big brave warrior that can truly shakes up the status quo. I want to hear and be engaged in their delusions, but unfortunately I usually only get called a bootlicker and a shill. Oh wait, I pretyped a very similar post 10 minutes ago, and looks like you've hit 2/2 in that regard. Impressive! But sad...
In any case, if people want to eat shit and get fucked, I won't get in their way as much as it repulses me. Sorry, ugh sorry! Okay?! I just don't have the keyboard crusader mentality some of you guys seem to have. Wish I did, sounds like an entertaining existence.

>>105602212
>installing a browser extension makes them some kind of big brave warrior that can truly shakes up the status quo
didn't you literally just say something about a strawman? please be serious

>>105602264
it's called hyperbole, anon.

>>105602287

>>105602304
The point still stands. I am fascinated and entertained by individuals who engage in (and truly believe in) this kind of... activism. Meanwhile, you're getting hung up over an exaggerated depiction of it, like it's some big haha gottem.

>>105602352

>>105602377
don't make me plug my old hard drive in, i got brutal memes from 2008 on there, i'm warning you bud

>>105602412

>>105602212
well, if enough people get interested in projects like AdNauseam then there may be a growth in financially conscious consumers or an increase in projects like it. Once there's a significant number of people disrupting their cash flow then maybe there will be change.
Even if few people actively actually use projects like this and make just a little dent then that's still better than no dent at all. I understand that the monetary loss is irrelevant to Google now with few people but the user experience is literally no different than just using standard Ublock; sometimes AdNauseam has better blocklists but not all the time. It's essentially Ublock with an added benefit.

>>105602412
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>>105601968
>Retarded misinformation.
and then your defense of it is that
>actually it costs the advertisers nothing and google doesnt make any money
so uh how was that costing them 6 gorillion dollars?

>>105602521
not to mention that the advertisers that will be affected by this are the small businesses who CANT track if the traffic is legit.
that's adsenses whole deal, super targeted advertisements. meaning i can advertise my new bookclub to people in my city. you want to scam me for doing that.

>>105602432
Based on the nature of current consumer trends, there is no way to get a significant enough number of people to care to make any meaningful difference to their profits or to endanger the business model. Not through boycotts, for sure. These companies are busy counting their millions while some of us are busy imagining that we're actually harming their bottom line. Since somebody brought up Switch 2, I looked it up and it seems like it's smashing every sales target there is. So much for all the boycotts. There are legal initiatives like stopkillinggames.com and even though major publishers have already made several changes to their policies that can be attributed to the movement, it's looking like ultimately legislation will fall through due to not enough people caring and things will devolve back to the regularly scheduled programming of not actually owning anything, like nothing ever happened. Legal action against Ubisoft may still be a thing, but that will take several miracles to line up.
>It's essentially Ublock with an added benefit.
In my opinion, the only added benefit is you feeling better about yourself.

>>105602535
>won't somebody please think of the small businesses!

can you provide any figures that show the amount of financial of harm dealt in proportion to the size of the business? otherwise, it makes it look like this is a "gotcha" talking point you made up, rather than the good-faith contribution to the discussion which I'm sure it was intended to be

>>105602521
so it seems you're tech-illiterate and have no understanding of basic finances. Because Google believes they have more money than they actually do then they'll spend it in ways they otherwise would not have. Anyone with a moderate amount of money would understand something so basic.

>>105602212
if you don't understand how movements are important and why a few autists can end up changing the world, why even step into this thread?

>>105602535
you realize that those businesses ARE the customers of google adsense, right? they're the ones holding google liable, not the other way around. are you actually retarded?

>>105599983 (OP)
you can still use ublock origin in chromium (not sure if it still works in the dev releases, though). just re-enable the extension.
to (re)install it, you have at least 2 options:
>If you know a tiny bit about html you can go to the ublock extension page, the 'Add to chrome' button will be greyed out, but if you right click and inspect, then change the 'disabled' element to 'enabled' it lets you click the button like normal and it works lmao... That's how I got mine back.
>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases Get the latest release, extract the zip, go to extensions page, enable developer mode, and select the folder and load it as an extension

source: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1j2ec76/


another bypass: use https://archive.is/$URL to share news with others if you pay for access to paywalled news websites or can bypass the paywall.

>>105602584
because i like shitting on people's dreams, i thought that much was clear. i was one of the first anons to tell the /f/ revival movement that they're wasting their time. it feels good to be right, even if i'm not necessarily happy with the outcome myself.

>>105602589
alternatively: don't use software that actively tries to stop you from using it

>>105602601
so you work for the status quo ... for free. Just because it makes you feel better about being a loser yourself that can't change anything.

>>105602576
just look at PPC advertising costs.
>motorcycle injury lawyer
lawyers are paying ~$200 everytime someone clicks an adsense ad on those results.
they are paying that much because it is worth it for them to represent someone that was injured on a motorcycle.
you clicking that advertisement, costing them $200 dollars, that jewgle instantly pockets, is fucked up.
do you think i actually care about lawyers here? no, but it exemplifies the point these clicks arent worthless.

heres the important part,
every single competent business that wants to compete effectively is using some form of PPC advertising now because SEO is a blackbox wildcard.
so you are fucking these people over just as much, and the funny thing is. you are effectively HARMING the businesses you actually DO care about. because google is serving you advertisements via your consumer profile, meaning - stuff that you're interested in... so you're fucking over the things you actually like. kek

>>105602601
man, with such a cool edgey, irreverant attitude i bet you're totally drowning in pussy. of course, you're probably too busy and cool to even have sex anyway, but still. that's so badass anon hahaha i wish i was like you

>>105602589
>>105602605
well, yeah. I forgot to mention that the best alternative is to use UbO on firefox

>>105602618
>advertising company has problems providing accurate data
>advertising company does not validate data and decides to defraud people instead
>continue to buy ads from a company that defrauds you
>"why would some anons on /g/ do this?"

>>105602612
i wouldn't call it "work", but yeah, something like that.

>>105602620
just being honest. can you ever hope to be this honest with yourself? i can't show this kind of attitude IRL and it annoys me.
>irreverant
haha! just like my latest netflixes!
>you're totally drowning in pussy. of course, you're probably too busy and cool to even have sex anyway
you'd laugh if i told you how true this actually is.

Any way to access age-restricted videos on YouTube anymore without having to log in?

>>105602569
I agree, I've tried convincing so many people to use FOSS or privacy-focused alternatives and only a handful went along with it. There are a stupid amount of stupid people, you're right.
Also true...the Switch 2 was a smash hit but at least it convinced a few people to get away from their blind allegiance. Maybe they'll contribute to the emulation scene.
It's hard to disagree with this post because though these movements are very positive, it's simply not enough. So really, it's whether or not you believe people should give up while they're behind, far behind, or push through to see some form of change. I simply believe it's best to keep pushing through and convincing as many people as possible no matter how slight a positive outcome may be.

Side note: I was extremely disappointed in the people harshly criticizing Nintendo yet still bought the console because they "HAD to play the new games" like it's a death sentence to pirate, disgusting.

>>105602650
youre a bit dense if you think google isnt capable of detecting you have the gay little plugin installed.
>bonus points for using chromium browser with it
jeets have been trying this "ill make a website with adsense and get my cousins to click it on their computers" scam for decades.
google knows. they will just refund coca cola , but not the home and garden store advertising a summer sale in your city center.

>>105602696
So is using the plugin useless and not worth your effort, or does the plugin work and hurt small businesses? assuming this is all (You), you're literally just changing your argument completely with each reply. hopefully I'm not just getting baited by an LLM with a thin context window right now lol

>>105602696
>you should know that the company is evil and will hurt this business either way no matter what you do, so you might as well be nice to them and hope that they stop being evil for no reason
there's no way your brain actually lives in this world hahaha, please touch grass

Not sure if this belongs here but youtube search results are now redirecting me to those auto-generated mixes. Not just the results marked as mixes or playlists; the regular individual video results now randomly have the mix/playlist shit added to their url sometimes.
This just started today for me. I see a few people on xitter complaining about it too so I know it's not just me.

Is there anything I can do to disable these mix urls or redirect them back to the normal video url? I have an extension that does that for shorts but I'm too tech-illiterate to make my own extension.

>>105602655
invideous or freepipe for computer, pipepipe for phone

>>105602740
are you incapable of replying without memearrows?
>im fighting the evil corporations by scamming home and garden store

i'd like to remind you that i'm not even pro ads, follow the chain of posts i'm this guy >>105601917
just use uBlock. i just find its counterproductive to adblocking - the ads are rendering for you instead of being blocked at the requests level. if you just used this extension and not uBlock for example, you'd still be getting tracked to shit...
and most importantly, i wouldn't use that adnauseum shit just for it being infested with jews alone.

>>105600944
You use monero.

>>105602791
Adnauseum completely messes up their intention for tracking you though, if you click every ad sent to you it completely messes up their profile for that specific user. So if your argument is that you're being tracked then it's better to use adnauseum because it ruins the very reason for the tracking.

>>105602791
I'm here for tech dude. Who cares if there are jews in the project if it does exactly what I want it to do?

>>105602834
>I'm here for tech dude.
lurk more then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

>>105602791
>are you incapable of replying without memearrows?

duh. btw you're right about that extension regarding privacy and ublock, I won't argue there, and again I don't even know shit about the extension. but you're very clearly beginning with the premise you want to support ("I don't like this extension"), and making shit up to try and support that viewpoint. nothing you've said up until this point was particularly cogent or based in reality, so I've been enjoying fucking with you to see if you can defend each argument (which you clearly cannot), hence all the meme arrows.

hope you enjoyed the (You)s, and I hope you realize that the friction you encounter in communicating with those around you in your daily life are a direct result of your antagonistic characterization of discussions as contests to be won. see u later space cowboy

>>105602824
no the anon you replied to, but you should know that ads will absolutely successfully track you simply by allowing them to render on your browser. you ARE being tracked if you allow ads to load whatsoever, even if you're "confusing" them. cool political stand, but you should know that from a personal usecase, it is explicitly less secure than blocking ads

>>105602605
This is very pathetic take, and a form of copium to some degree. Kinda like letting a 5' skinny jeet rape your gf because you are too scared to get hurt in the process of stopping him. Almost all modern software and services are user hostile to some degree, and you can either take from them what you deserve like a real man or get cucked like a scarred virgin who pretends to boycott them just because you are too lazy to do a 5 minute research on how to bypass a paywall.

>>105603485
wait, I just realised I took the wrong context. Please take my apologies while I punch myself in the face 5 times for being a retarded gorilla nigger.

>>105601571
Make sure to not use your ISP's router and wifi also.

>>105603698
don't worry anon, we all make mistakes and misread sometimes. at least you admitted it, unlike 99.9% of the users in this crappy board that, even when posting anonymously, are unable to admit bieng wrong.

>>105605641
thx

For whoever has a short attention span and cannot read more than eight seconds worth of text, freetubeapp is good for skipping ads.

>>105603748
yeah we got opnsense on the mf, though I'm unfortunately still using their modem (not sure exactly how much this matters yet). at the moment I'm working on binding an entire vlan to wireguard with some ports on my switch too which is fun. just plug into a "secure" port and you'll know that all your traffic will run through a mullvad node

>>105607562
>still using their modem (not sure exactly how much this matters yet)
It doesn't, as long as you're in true modem mode and aren't doing some silly double NAT business

>>105599983 (OP)
Has anyone figured out how to bypass Substack newsletter paywalls?

>>105610749
these didn't help?

>>105610821
No. I have that extension, and it only works for news sites.