Screenshot of what’s happening for the uninitiated. Bot keeps posting YouTube links and then replying to itself because it detects a YouTube link.
Someone needs to make a PR to add a check for the username of the commenter that they’re replying to. Should be a simple conditional check.
O look my post has 6 comments… Fucking bot.
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Yea at this point im just putting on a show for all the hackers watching on my camera
I can’t imagine anyone that concerned about privacy is so unprepared and unknowledgable online that they need the internet to cater privacy alternatives for them.
“I dOn’T wAnT mY dAtA aLL oUt ThErE!!!”
“Totally understandable. So what steps are you taking?”
“PeOpLe HaVe tO dO iT FoR mE!!”
So now we all must suffer?
The downside of being concerned about privacy is that it can be very inconvenient. I don’t think its so awful to try to minimize that, making it more accessible to people that wouldn’t otherwise bother.
I blocked that bot long ago. I don’t want to see a website being advertised on every video link on every Lemmy instance.
I don’t see it as an advertisement. It’s the same as e.g. the AMPutator bot - it provides a convenient way to circumvent Google’s monopoly.
I guess it would feel less intrusive if it weren’t four spaced out lines where most comments are one.
Regardless, even if it’s for a good cause, it is an advertisement. It’s informing users of Piped for the purpose of getting them to use it. Existing Piped users already have a convenient way to set up redirects, which have been posted several times.
I guess it seems a lot nicer to people who actually want to use the service, but to people who don’t, it’s just advertising.
PipedLinkBot today replied to my link which wasn’t a YouTube video…
I gave it a “u good bot?”
Beepity boopity: Link to comment where it happened
Be a friend of the FOSS, open a GitHub issue.
Edit: actually I see someone did. I added a link to your post as another example.
Thanks for contributing my comment to that issue!
good boy
Invidious, Piped, etc. instances come and go. We shouldn’t link to them and break links.
let’s just install LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect extention and just pick our own.
If I could get either LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect in my Firefox based mobile browser I totally would. I’m just not 100% sure whether or not the feature from Firefox Beta allowing for using collections of desktop extensions- if the extension you want even works on mobile- has come to normal Firefox for android yet.
For Piped you can install LibreTube and set it to open YT and a bunch of Piped links by default.
I am sure I saw an app on F-Droid that can do redirects, but cannot recall the name right now.
As far as I can tell that’s another way to link to piped.kavin.rocks aka not any instance but rather the official one, I highly doubt that will go away…
Muhaha.
Video made me lol.
And then you have the auto tldr bot.
Which is actually useful. Especially for articles with a pay/loginwall.
The what ?
the auto tldr bot
I’ve never seen it.
He’s better than the decepti tldr con.
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