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What's the worst privacy compromise that you are willing to admit you make? (sopuli.xyz)
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I've got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn't? Any tools that you're just waiting for a chance to replace but can't yet?

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still use YouTube due to not figuring out how to export my playlists in a way where I can just have a plaintext list of all the videos I want to keep track of. I'm planning on coming up with some kind of Python script to take what I get from their "takeout" method and from there, just find a programmatic way to get what I want. So basically, I allow Google to keep cookies on my system but I use a different Google account on my phone to avoid having them track me on different devices.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can probably yt-dlp the playlist.

[–] ceigid@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes you can. If I understand it correctly it's about keeping it updated automatically, i.e. as soon as a new video appears, it should yt-dlp itself. I'm actually looking for something similar. But I have been downloading whole channels by using yt-dlp on playlists.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Tubearchivist maybe? I haven't used it so I don't know if it's automated like that.

Personally I just have yt-dlp in a script run periodically by cron.