Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-06 Thread Ben Tasker
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 6:26 AM bo0od wrote: > - Connecting to Youtube directly , then you are putting your security on > the SSL/TLS encryption. Whereas using in invidous hidden services your > security is through the Onion hidden services design > One of the points made earlier though, is that

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread bo0od
Im not the operator of the service but here are the advantages: - Youtube is made by a dick company to humanity called Google, which is funding their services by stealing/collecting users data. So the JS which is closed source in case of YB prevent you from watching the videos unless you allow the

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread Damon (TheDcoder)
I agree with Seth, this particular YouTube frontend/proxy seems to be more focused on offering an alternative viewing experience rather than privacy. One interesting thing I have noted which may improve privacy (but still does not outweigh the risk involved) is that this site provides video playba

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
Seth David Schoen writes: > if its operator knew a vulnerability in some clients' video codecs, (or in some other part of Tor Browser, since the proxy can also serve arbitrary HTTP headers, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON, and media files of various types) > it could also serve a maliciously modifie

Re: [tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
bo0od writes: > This is another front end to YouTube: Hi bo0od, Thanks for the links. This seems to be in a category of "third-party onion proxy for clearnet service" which is distinct from the situation where a site operator provides its own official onion service (like Facebook's facebookcore

[tor-talk] You Can Now Watch YouTube Videos with Onion Hidden Services

2018-12-05 Thread bo0od
This is another front end to YouTube: Clearnet: https://invidio.us Onion V2 Mirror: http://kgg2m7yk5aybusll.onion/ Onion V3 Mirror: http://axqzx4s6s54s32yentfqojs3x5i7faxza6xo3ehd4bzzsg2ii4fv2iid.onion Special Thanks to Omar Roth for making this happen. Source Code: https://github.com/om