| 15 Jun 2019 |
 @darkmaurice:matrix.org | Redacted or Malformed Event | 12:43:49 |
 PrestonFT | I'm having trouble duplicating the AppImage issue on both Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. I'm going to spin up a Manjaro VM and look further into it. | 18:27:25 |
| PrestonFT | I'm also not too sure how I feel about an adblocker just for the YouTube player. I feel like 99% of the time a typical user won't be using the YT player. The only reasons I can see them using the player is for fallback if nothing else works, to test georestriction problems, or to support a creator that they feel deserves the ad revenue. For those situations, I don't see much of a reason for an adblocker to be included and it will be extra bloat for a majority of users. | 18:30:20 |
 hippokopter | I agree honestly | 18:31:24 |
| hippokopter | how would an adblocker even be implemented? | 18:31:54 |
| PrestonFT | Because FreeTube is based on Electron, we can actually add Chrome extensions alongside the installation, which is likely what I would do if I ended up enabling such a feature. | 18:32:54 |
| PrestonFT | Also darkmaurice for your georestriction problems, try enabling/disabling "Grab Videos Locally" in your settings. Getting the video to play through the legacy player will likely be the best I can do for now. I highly recommend you enable a VPN as this is your best solution for bypassing georestriction problems. | 18:35:00 |
| hippokopter | wouldn't Tor work for georestriction? | 18:36:17 |
| PrestonFT | It could also work. I may not be 100% right on this, but unless specified, Tor's exit node will be random which wouldn't guarantee it would bybass a geolocation issue. At least with a VPN it's much easier to determine the country your connection is based out of. | 18:38:06 |
| hippokopter | yeah | 18:38:22 |
| PrestonFT | There's also the hard truth that there isn't a ton I can do application wise to fix geolocation issues. The issue with each user is unique and unless I implement an entire network on VPNs or proxies, someone is always going to have an issue. | 18:40:01 |
|  avlightless joined the room. | 18:43:22 |
| avlightless | Hi | 18:43:33 |
| PrestonFT | Hello, welcome! | 18:43:47 |
| hippokopter | yeah, hi! | 18:43:54 |
| avlightless | Is this the right place to ask some qiestions about the app? | 18:43:58 |
| PrestonFT | Sure thing. Ask away. | 18:44:07 |
| avlightless | Cool, so I was looking at the proxy settings, and noticed that theres no way to use authorization. I tried username:pw@domain but it failed. Is this intended behavior? Also is there a way to go "back" from watching a video? When you have scrolled down far it's pretty annoying to have to click on subscriptions again only to be taken to the top. I'm not trying to complain, since this is still better than anything i have used :D | 18:47:38 |
| PrestonFT | I haven't tested proxies with authentication but there shouldn't be a reason why it doesn't work. Is there any documentation that states how the string should be structured? | 18:49:28 |
| PrestonFT | Also a universal back button is planned for a future release. No ETA yet but it will be implemented before stable gets released. | 18:49:55 |
| avlightless | Authentication yes, i used the wrong word | 18:50:11 |
| avlightless | Oh nice, looking forward to it! | 18:50:49 |
| avlightless | I believe the universal syntax is username:password@domain.com, or in your case maybe SOCKS5://username:password@domain.com but i have no idea how that would handle a ":" in the password, perhaps via an escape character | 18:52:40 |
| PrestonFT | Is the proxy you're using a SOCKS5 proxy? Is there a specific port number you need to use? | 18:54:40 |
| avlightless | Yes it's socks5 on port 1080 | 18:56:40 |
| avlightless | I forgot to add that to the example but i used it when testing | 18:56:59 |
| PrestonFT | Alright. Just wanted to make sure. | 19:02:16 |
| PrestonFT | I'm going to have to find a proxy that uses authentication to test. Is it a VPN you're using that provides the proxy? | 19:02:35 |
| avlightless | Yeah it's called Windscribe | 19:03:00 |
| PrestonFT | Alright. I was going to see if I could sign up for a free trial or something but it looks like the socks5 is a pro feature. | 19:05:30 |
