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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • My 2 cents: I have a similar relation with smartphones as yours.

    In my case, what I fear the most is some app getting my contact list and using it to send some kind of “XXX has joined YYY service” notification to all of them. Also, I didn’t like that Google had all the data they wanted, so I ended with 2 smartphones:

    • One de-googled (LineageOS without Google Apps) that I use for calls and trusted apps. This one has my contacts list.
    • One default Android-Google without simcard for those apps that require oficial-Android (mainly banks apps) and any app I’m afraid could mess with the contact list.

    AFAIK I’ve only had one incident because I trusted Telegram too much. There is always non-zero risk, but this works for me.














  • I was going to suggest yt-dlp, but this seems to be for android… right? In that case, I don’t know if yt-dlp works there.

    Anyway, for those on PCs, you can use yt-dlp "PLAYLIST_URL".

    Some useful options:

    • --download-archive videos.txt: this will keep track of downloaded files in case you want to interrupt an continue later. You can change the filename videos.txt to whatever you want.
    • -R infinite --file-access-retries infinite --fragment-retries infinite --retry-sleep http:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep file_access:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep extractor:exp=1:20: infinite retries for different error types, for those with unreliable connections.
    • -o "%%(playlist_index)s - %%(title)s.%%(id)s.%%(ext)s": output file format
    • --cookies cookies.txt: if it’s a private list, you will need to provide your (yt-logged-in-)browser cookies. See cookies.txt add-on.