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  • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mldax
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    8 months ago

    As far as I know piped gets the video from youtube and serves it to you so that youtube only sees traffic coming from the piped instance you are using. Using adblockers would give you the same benefits as using piped except for the anonymity. As long as tor gives you a good video quality, it is a better option than the frontend because you don’t have a piped instance knowing your traffic.

    I don’t like my traffic being fingerprinted by youtube but can’t handle the slow tor connections so I ended up using a frontend for youtube. The one I use is called Invidious.












  • I’ve searched for it and xz also doesn’t use multithreading by default, you can change the program tar uses to compress by passing the -I option. For xz using all possible CPU threads:

    tar -cv -I 'xz -6 -T0' -f archive.tar.xz [list of directories]

    The number indicates the compression ratio, the higher the number, the more compressed the archive will be but it will cost more in terms of memory and processing time