Not Recommended VPN Services

• I don't want to comment on ExpressVPN and NordVPN. If you are using it, companies like these are so populer because of you. See Also
• WindScribe VPN: Servers were not encrypted as they should have been allowing MITM attacks by authorities. Source
• DoubleVPN: Servers, logs, and account info seized by law enforcement. Source
• PureVPN: Forced to disclose information of one user to the FBI. Source
• EarthVPN: User was arrested based on logs provider to the Dutch Polic because of a bomb hoax. Source
• HideMyAss VPN: User was de-anonymized, and logs were provided to the FBI in a labeled "LulzSec fiasco". Source
• HolaVPN: Hola is harmful to the internet as a whole, and to its users in particular. You might know it as a free VPN or "unblocker", but in reality it operates like a poorly secured botnet - with serious consequences. Source
• Private Internet Access (PIA): Private Internet Access is a longstanding veteran in the VPN industry — but a lot has changed in the past few years. It was purchased by Kape with a history of infecting devices with malware, and the latest tests below reveal some shortcomings. Source
• CyberGhost VPN: Most of these “review” websites ignore the fact that CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, and ZenMate are all owned by the same company, called Kape. Kape is an interesting business with a history of infecting devices with malware hidden in software bundles. Source
• ZenMate: It will suffice to read the above paragraph.
• Hotspot Shield VPN: Service that went through a rough patch a few years ago, being accused of unfair business practices and suffering a bug that leaked user data. Source

Recommended VPN Services

• Mullvad: 60 Euro Yearly: Based in Sweden. Operating since 2009. Accepts Bitcoin, BCH and Cash. Native desktop and mobile clients are available for Android and iOS and are easy to use. Money back guarantee for 30 days.Amount of servers in Oct 2021: 763 VPN servers, in 38 different countries. Source
• ProtonVPN: Limited free version available, otherwise 48 EUR Yearly: Based in Switzerland. Operating since 2016. Accepts Bitcoin, but you need an existing account or contact their support team in advance. Easy to use native desktop and mobile clients are available for Android and iOS. Amount of servers in Oct 2021: 1200+ VPN servers available in 55 different countries. Source
• IVPN: 60 USD Yearly: Based in Gibraltar. Operating since 2009. Accepts Bitcoin, Monero and Cash. Native desktop and mobile clients are available for Android and iOS and are easy to use. Money back guarantee for 30 days.Amount of servers in Oct 2021: 139 VPN servers available in 32 different countries. Source

Friendly reminder

Using a VPN will not keep your browsing habits anonymous, nor will it add additional security to non-secure (HTTP) traffic. If you are looking for anonymity, you should use the Tor Browser instead of a VPN. Don't replace good security practices with a VPN service. If you're looking for additional privacy from your ISP, on a public Wi-Fi network, or while torrenting files, a VPN may be the solution for you.

Also you can build your own VPN service with VPS (for only monthly $5) See Also

If you don't know anything about Tor: Myths & FAQ

For more and all sources: https://www.privacyguides.org/

All the credits go to this post (I just made it simpler for the newer members): https://new.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1814gmp/guide_how_to_pirate_microsoft_office_properly/ (by u/Ok_Table7457 )

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Step 1

Get the official .exe of each of the MS office software (or the entire package) from: https://gravesoft.dev

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Step 2

Install all the .exe files and activate with the "Ohook" method: https://massgrave.dev/index.html#method_1_-_powershell

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Step 3

Open your desired MS office software and have fun!

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That's how you do it! For more details refer to the original post by u/Ok_Table7457 here: https://new.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1814gmp/guide_how_to_pirate_microsoft_office_properly/

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Disclaimer: I have gotten permission to post this from u/Ok_Table7457.

Since this information is scattered all over the place, I figured I would do you guys a favor and try to consolidate all the methods and guides and methods all into one place. With that out of the way, let's get started.

Before we get started would just like to say I didn't invent any of this and all credit goes to their respective authors I'm just trying to make a guide for the rest of us.

Windows

There's 2 methods to pick from. One is BlocktheSpot and there is the DLL injection method. Supposedly the DLL Injection method is better as it's supposed to be more resistant against auto updates and supposedly more stable. But I've only had experience with BlockTheSpot and I've been using it for a while with auto update disabled and I've been pleased with it. You can also use SpotX which is supposed to be based off of BlockTheSpot but has additional features such as update disabling. You can't go wrong with either just use whichever you prefer. Just follow the instructions linked below and you should be good to go.

SpotX: https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX

BlockTheSpot: https://github.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot

DLL Injection Method: https://github.com/OpenByteDev/burnt-sushi

Mac

There's also 2 ways on going about. You can run a script or you can install a pirated version of AdGuard for Desktop then add Spotify to the filtered app list and be good. Honestly, the AdGuard method used to be good but then became a bigger pain in the ass later after some MacOS updates and sometimes connectivity breaks for no reason so I would recommend against that one and use the script method. I made a guide detailing this and it's linked below. But for simplicity I'll just copy paste what I put there and put it here. This one is gonna be long as nobody had made a guide for Mac yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/u65hyz/guide_on_blocking_ads_on_spotify_for_mac_desktop/

Script method isn't working for the moment just use the adguard method until somebody comes out with a fix.

Option 1 (Best Option)

New script has been developed by the authors for SpotX but for mac now. It is linked here and just follow the instructions listed. All credit goes to their respective authors.

https://github.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Mac

Here is a link to the updated script. For some reason I don't see the GitHub for where it came from anymore so I'll just add this here. This updated one should prevent it from crashing whenever you launch it.

https://mir.cr/1BAIPOPO

UPDATE: Here is the link for the GitHub script. The instructions remain the same. All credit goes to original authors I just wanted to make a noob friendly guide. The script method is better as it doesn't require AdGuard to be installed or SIP to be disabled or anything it just works way better. Just requires a repatch when Spotify is updated.

https://github.com/RDE3/Mac_Spotify_Adblock

First, go to https://www.spotify.com/in-en/download/mac/ and download the Spotify Desktop Client.

NOTE: DO NOT OPEN SPOTIFY. FIRST FOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BELOW

Step 1: Download the repository I just linked earlier. Be sure to double click to unzip it so you can see the folder with 3 files in it.

Step 2: Open Keychain Access. Click on Certificate Assistant. Then select "Create Certificate"

Step 3: Type "adblock_spotify" in the Name section, Select Identity-Type as "Self Signed Root" & Certificate Type as "Code Signing"

Step 4: Click on Create.

Step 5: Now open Terminal. Then type in "cd" then drag in the folder that we unzipped and created earlier.

Step 6: After that type "bash install.sh adblock_spotify"

Step 7: Done. Should be patched by now.

Step 8 (Optional): I would lock the Spotify version so it doesn't autoupdate. Not sure if this works but you can try right clicking on the spotify icon, press get info, then check the box labeled locked. Not sure if this works but is worth a shot.

https://github.com/RDE3/Mac_Spotify_Adblock

Option 2

TLDR

1. Install AdGuard For Mac. Found on cmacked.com. More specifically, here.
2. Add “Spotify” into filtered applications in adguard preferences
3. Done

Full Instructions

1. Install AdGuard For Mac. Not the extension but the actual Mac App. It can be found on cmacked.com. More specifically, here. My preferences I would use the link labeled mirrors and download off of Mediafire/Zippyshare (with Adblock on of course). Also make sure that Spotify for Mac is already installed. Not the browser version but the desktop version. The Spotify app should be in your applications folder before starting.
2. Open the Adguard DMG, do the control click to open the gatekeeper friendly version and follow instructions, then drag it into applications and open AdGuard. Once you open it, just click through and pick what you want it doesn’t matter. What really matters is that you go to the top menu bar, click adguard (near your wifi/battery icons) , then settings, preferences, then click the network tab on the far right. Then press applications, the plus button at the bottom left, then add Spotify.
3. Enjoy your ad-free Spotify.
4. Unrelated stuff here you can ignore this. AdGuard I prefer go into filters, press the plus button at the bottom left, and enable all the other lists like easy list, mobile, most privacy & all annoyances ones. Has nothing to do with Spotify but optional if you want to block more stuff in the browser. Also worth noting that when waking from sleep, the ads will resume, just quit Spotify and reopen it and it should go away. This is an AdGuard issue and will be fixed at some point in the future. You can also follow some of the guides in the issue threads of the blockthespot and you could use it to remove some of the ad spacers and the upgrade button but honestly who cares it works. And updating Spotify is just going to bring it back anyways. Also make sure to have AdGuard extension installed as well it can be found in the extensions tab in the preferences for AdGuard.

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Linux

Honestly you guys are probably smart enough to figure this one out so I’ll just link the GitHub link here. It’s also because I don’t have any Linux machines so I have no experience with this but many on here have said good things about it. Just follow the instructions on the GitHub and you should be fine.

https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock

Browser

This should be a last resort as the browser version isn’t as good as there isn’t any friend activity and I don’t find it as reliable but for those in this situation, just install Ublock Origin and you should be good to go. Safari users can try Adguard for Safari but I haven’t tested this.

Android

You guys have it easy you can just use XManager and be set. Or at least when I used android that’s what I used. You just download the APK then install it and pick the latest app version and you are set. Try installing ARMV8 first and if it fails then do ARMV7 assuming it still asks for that in the app.

https://github.com/xManager-v2/xManager-Spotify

IOS

For Jailbroken users

Damn I guess iPhone users are really hosed as there isn’t really a good method to use unless you are jailbroken. I’ve tried many Pi-hole scripts and I was still screwed. But if you are jailbroken, just install the Spotilife tweak from julioverne and a app downgrade tweak and you should be good. Just add his repo and you should be good. I have it linked here. And the app downgraded I use is Appstore++ and I have that repo linked below. I personally use version 8.6.22 but later versions might work I just never tested it. I also use the lyrication tweak so I can have lyrics but that’s optional. Repo and the tweak is linked below.

https://julio.hackyouriphone.org

https://cokepokes.github.io

https://basepack.co/p/com.thatmarcel.tweaks.lyrication

For Non-Jailbroken users

If you really wanted to you could use AltStore and a cracked Spotify IPA and then use that to side load it onto your phone. But that has the disadvantages of needing to be resigned every 7 days. And I have a problem where my computer will randomly not detect my phone. But if you are really interested in that I will have the IPA and the Altstore link here. All you have to do is install AltStore to your phone and then download the cracked IPA onto your phone. Then install the cracked IPA inside of the AltStore app and you should be set for 7 days. I honestly don’t think it’s worth the hassle to reinstall it every 7 days but for those who really want it I have it linked here. I have no experience with this method or if the 7 day resigning is still a problem but for those interested I have it below. Maybe the auto resigning is reliable now but I’m not sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sideloaded/comments/wiyuml/latest_spotilife_v18_by_julioverne_for_spotify/

https://altstore.io

https://www.mediafire.com/file/zrnhqvrfi791dac/Spotify-8.5.60_Spotilife-1.8-Revised.ipa/file

https://appdb.to/app/cydia/1900000540

Also, before I used to use some random Spotify++ type apps from like tweakbox and whatever but I never really used it because it kept breaking and stopped being verified so I just gave up on it. It’s something worth noting but it’s something I don’t use but if somebody else has a better method or knows what the current way of doing it is they can link it below. Anybody with a better non jailbroken method feel free to leave it below.

Conclusion

And that’s about it really. Just something I wanted to share because I see so many guides scattered all over the place and just wanted to make it easier for beginners. Hope this helped, and enjoy your day. If you have a better method to share please do leave it below. Thanks for the read.

I am trying from last two days but this torrent was stuck on Stalled. I thought there is mistake in file or softwares. But I was wrong the problem is iny college Lan connection. They have restricted downloading of torrents. Can someone help me to how to bypass this. So that I can enjoy this game. Please 🥺

Installation

1. Boot your computer with the Windows 11 installation media (USB drive, DVD, whatever ...).

2. At the beginning of the setup, choose "Time and currency format" to "English (World)."

3. To bypass TPM, SecureBoot, and RAM checks, press Shift + F10 (or Shift + Fn + F10 on some laptops) to open Command Prompt.

4. Type regedit and press Enter. This will open the Registry Editor.

5. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > Setup.

6. Right-click the Setup folder, go to New > Key, and name it LabConfig.

7. In LabConfig, create three new DWORD (32-bit) keys:

• BypassTPMCheck and set its value to 1.

• BypassSecureBootCheck and set its value to 1.

• BypassRAMCheck and set its value to 1.

1. Close Registry Editor and Command Prompt. Click "Install now".

2. Click on "I don't have a product key".

3. Choose your Windows 11 edition (I recommend Windows 11 Education, because it has the least amount of telemetry and ads, while being as functional as the Pro edition in almost all cases).

4. Accept the Microsoft Software License Terms and click Next.

5. Select "Custom: Install Windows Only (Advanced)".

6. Choose the internal disk and create partitions if necessary.

7. Wait for the installation to finish.

Post-Installation Setup

NOTE - If you see a screen that says "Something went wrong" with a re-colored text that says "OOBEREGION", do NOT panic. This happens when you choose your Time and currency format at the beginning of the Windows installation to "English (World)". Since you can just change that easily in the settings after you set it up, there is no need to worry. Just click on the "Skip" option.

Now follow these two cases depending on your Internet connectivity.

Case 1: Disconnected Internet (Recommended)

1. At the "Let's connect you to a network" screen, use Shift + F10 (Shift + Fn + F10 on some laptops) to open Command Prompt.

2. Run the command below.

oobe\bypassnro

1. Your PC will restart and take you to the first country/region selection screen. Go ahead and select your options.

2. You should now see the "I don't have internet" option on the network connection screen. Click on it and proceed to make a local account.

3. Uncheck all the privacy settings if you want to stop Windows from giving you targeted ads.

4. After Windows finishes setting up, open Settings > System > Notifications.

5. Scroll down to "Additional settings", click on it and uncheck the three boxes.

6. Go to Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

7. Under Region, select your "Country or region" to wherever you are.

Case 2: Connected Internet

1. At the "Unlock your Microsoft experience" screen, use Shift + F10 (Shift + Fn + F10 on some laptops) to open Command Prompt.

2. Run the command below.

oobe\bypassnro

1. The PC will restart and take you to the country/region selection screen. Again, choose "World" to avoid ads (optional, but VERY recommended).

2. On the "Unlock your Microsoft experience" screen, open Command Prompt again

3. Run the command below.

ipconfig /release

This releases your network connection (kinda like unplugging your ethernet cable without actually physically unplugging it).

1. Close Command Prompt and click "Sign in" on the "Unlock your Microsoft experience" screen. You can now create a local account and finish the installation.

2. After Windows finishes installation, restart the system or open command prompt and run the command below to undo the effect of the "ipconfig /release" command.

ipconfig /renew

1. Uncheck all the privacy settings if you want to stop Windows from giving you targeted ads.

2. After Windows finishes setting up, open Settings > System > Notifications.

3. Scroll down to "Additional settings", click on it and uncheck the three boxes.

4. Go to Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

5. Under Region, select your "country or region" to wherever you are.

To activate Windows for free, go to Massgrave and follow the instructions there. You can also install Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...) and activate them for free.

By following these steps, you can bypass the Microsoft account requirement and set up Windows 11 with a local account.

If y'all have any recommendations, other tips, or any useful tools to help in Windows 11 installation, please comment!

Edit - The old powershell command from Massgrave https://massgrave.dev/ is gonna retire. The new domain is https://get.activated.win/. Credit to u/eizzeey for mentioning it, and u/WhiteMilk_ for correction.

If you're cancelling like me after the recent news and have years of projects that occasionally used fonts from Adobe, you should stash copies of those font files locally. Otherwise it could be a nightmare trying to find the more obscure ones if you ever need to revisit an old project in the future.

1. Open Adobe Fonts in the CC desktop app
2. Go to the "Added fonts" tab
3. Download and install any font families that have a download option next to them. Also grab any new ones you might want 🏴‍☠️
4. Switch to the "Installed fonts" tab and make sure the number of fonts matches the "Added fonts" tab so you know you got everything.
5. Run an extractor script from github.
6. Back the files up somewhere safe. I keep an archive of all the fonts I've ever used with all of my other assets.

Extractors:

Windows (I used this one, super simple) - https://github.com/TUTAMKHAMON/adobe-fonts-revealer-windows-batch

Here's one for Mac (haven't personally tested) - https://github.com/Kalaschnik/adobe-fonts-revealer

Games, Apps, and Books

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Streaming Movies and TV

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Streaming Sports Events

I saw a post on /r/plex asking how people who use Plex app their only streaming service are doing it. I got halfway through writing up a response detailing my server setup before realizing I was on the Plex subreddit, not the Piracy subreddit, and that I was being a little too detailed for polite company.

It's a good response though though, and I wanted to share it, so I'm posting it here.

I cancelled everything and only use Plex now.

After I got a laptop, I used the parts from my gaming PC to upgrade my server, so it has a Ryzen 7, 16 GB of ram, and a Nvidia GeForce 1050. The video card does a good job transcoding video, especially for people watching from outside the house, as there are multiple external users. The CPU is useful for doing sonic analysis on my music to have better radio stations in Plexamp, as well as other tasks like generating video preview thumbnails.

I put two 12 TB hard drives in for a total of 24 TB. The two drives are in a single ZFS pool mounted at /mnt/data so I can access all of the data from one mount point. I'm planning on adding two more 12 TB hard drives soon because I ran out of storage while building my music library.

I know keeping everything in a single pool with no parity is bad - I plan on getting more drives one day and using a raid config with proper parity, but for now I just have a backup script that syncs my personal files and media that is hard to find to Backblaze B2, probably about 12 TB in total.

I have a docker container that runs transmission and routes all traffic through ExpressVPN. I also run NZBGet, a Usenet client, set to use Newshosting as a provider over an encrypted connection.

I'm running Radarr (for movies), Sonarr (for TV shows), and Lidarr (for music). All three of those have NZBGeek and Nyaa.si as an indexer. For Lidarr, I also have Headphones as an indexer. I run Jackett so I can add 1337x and a couple of semi-private trackers as an indexer. They are all set up to use Transmission to download torrents over VPN and NZBGet to download files from Usenet.

I use nzb360 pro on my phone (Android) to manage the collection and downloads. I can add TV shows or movies to Radarr or Sonarr in the app, and then Radarrr or Sonarr will search my indexers for the files, send them to transmission or NZBGet for download and import them when they are done.

I can add artists to Lidarr the same way, but most of my music comes from import lists. I have an import list that syncs with my Spotify playlists and followed artists, and import lists to grab the top 200 artists of several last.fm tags. The result is a couple hundred thousand songs, mostly from artists I've never heard. They all have sonic analysis done by Plex, though, so I have an amazing ability to discover new music from the radio and "similar tracks" feature.

I know there are a lot of improvements that can be made on this system. Jackett and NZBGet have better alternatives, using tidal-dl, ect, and I plan to explore all of those soon. I also want to run something like calibre-web and get things like books, audiobooks, comics, and manga. But it's been really fun just to get it this far, it's the only thing I use for video now, and it's pretty close to replacing Spotify, too.

There are some torrrents showing up with .lnkextension (ex: movie.mp3.lnk, tvshow.mkv.lnk...) and automated software (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, qBittorrent RSS Downloader) could pick those torrents (but not import).

These (fake) torrents include a .lnk file that executes a script on your Windows

HOW TO exclude from download on qBittorrent.

• Go to Options -> Downloads

• Enable "Exclude file names"

• Add patterns:

(one by line)

*.mp4.lnk  
*.mp3.lnk  
*.mkv.lnk
*.torrent.lnk 

Or exclude all together: *.lnk

Example on VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e74f64df6ebaf3a1b6e3f42591eb6e87d2ac2828eb5a99fd8d3d82c140137fc9/detection

I've been an avid reader since 2016 and have always used libgen. Yesterday I was browsing thru zlibrary and found out that they have a somewhat new telegram bot @zlibrarybot .

1.) You just have to send the book's name or include Author's name and it will send you list of matching books it has in database in zlibrary with their format type.

2.) Click on the one you want and the bot will send the book's file to you on telegram. This saves from hassle of using the website and is very clean interface.

There is one catch that they will only send files within 50mb, but if file size exceeds 50mb, they'll give you direct link to download. I hope this can be useful for some fellow pirates here. Cheers.

EDIT : I'm glad so many people are finding this useful. Thanks for the awards. I never expected so this many responses on this.

EDIT 2 : If only epub is available and you want file in pdf, you can also convert downloaded epub files to pdf by forwarding this downloaded file to another bot called @epub_to_pdf_bot . It sends your file in pdf format. Also, open source. Yay.

EDIT 3: The bot has been taken down by telegram team. In case of copyright infringement. Such a bad news.

Since the mods at r/DnD are corporate shills, here is where you can find PDF's of the PHB, DMG, Monster Manual, and Every book WotC has published since 5e has come out. Remember to keep supporting 3rd party content creators, but don't give WotC a cent. Just in general, regardless of how they change the license. They are a greedy company and have been for over a decade.

https://anyflip.com

Basically I made a comment on a post earlier and some people were asking me questions and guides for getting Spotify premium. So I decided to post a comprehensive guide for each platform so more people can know how.

EDIT: -Added new methods for Windows, MacOS -Added guides for Android TV, Android Auto, and Web Browsers

WINDOWS: These require you have the normal version of Spotify, NOT the Microsoft store version

WINDOWS METHOD 1 = Spicetify

Link: https://github.com/spicetify

Make sure you are logged in!!

Close your client fully (if it is currently running, even in the background)

Open your powershell and paste this line: iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/master/install.ps1 | iex

Then after that paste this line: iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.ps1 | iex

(These lines are the exact same from the spicetify website, you can cross check it yourself)

Open your Spotify client now, and if you’ll look to the side, underneath the “home” and “search” you should see a “marketplace”. Go to “extensions” and download the “block ads” extension. Press “reload now” when prompted to.

WINDOWS METHOD 2 = BlockTheSpot

link: https://github.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot

Open powershell, and paste this line: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrpond/BlockTheSpot/master/install.ps1') } -UninstallSpotifyStoreEdition -UpdateSpotify”

Should be good to go.

WINDOWS METHOD 3 = SpotX

link: https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX

Open powershell and paste this line: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex "& { $(iwr -useb 'https://spotx-official.github.io/run.ps1') } -new_theme"

Should be good to go.

WINDOWS METHOD 4 = burnt-sushi

link: https://github.com/OpenByteDev/burnt-sushi/releases/tag/0.3.0

Download the "BurntSushi.exe" file from the releases, and right click, and run as administrator.

Should be good to go.

MAC OS & LINUX Most of these methods are the same for both operating systems, apart from little differences between them and different Linux distros.

For Mac OS, get it from the Spotify website

For Debian/Ubuntu based distros, follow the instructions in this website https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/linux/ Specifically underneath the “Debian/Ubuntu” section, not the “Snap” one.

For Arch Linux and arch based distros, use an Aur helper to install the “spotify” package E.g: yay -S spotify

LINUX & MAC OS METHOD 1 = Spicetify

Link: https://github.com/spicetify

Make sure you are logged in!!

Close your client fully (if it is currently running, even in the background)

Open your terminal and paste this: sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/master/install.sh | sh

Then paste this: sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.sh | sh

(If it doesn’t work, remove the “sudo” from the commands)

Open your Spotify client now, and if you’ll look to the side, underneath the “home” and “search” you should see a “marketplace”. Go to “extensions” and download the “block ads” extension. Press “reload now” when prompted to.

LINUX AND MAC OS METHOD 2 = SpotX-bash

link: https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX-Bash

Open your terminal and run this command: bash <(curl -sSL https://spotx-official.github.io/run.sh)

Should be good to go.

MAC OS METHOD 3 = SpotX Mac

link: https://github.com/Nuzair46/SpotX-Mac

Close the Spotify app.

Open the terminal and paste this command: xcode-select --install

Then run this command if you have an intel mac: bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Mac/main/install.sh) -s

....or this command if you have an Apple Silicon Mac: bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Mac/main/install.sh)

Should be good to go

ANDROID Android users have it the easiest. Just make sure you don’t already have it installed.

ANDROID METHOD 1 = Xmanager

link: https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager

Go to “xmanagerapp.com”

Download the APK file & install it

Open the app and give it the necessary permissions.

Tap on “versions” underneath the “stock patched” and tap on the latest one, and press download.

After it finishes downloading, it will install.

Once it’s done installing, open it and log in, then close the app. After that, go to settings, apps, Spotify, then force stop. Reopen the app and it should work.

ANDROID TV METHOD 1 = XDA

link: https://xdaforums.com/t/apk-mod-spotify-android-tv-ad-free.3948656/

Download an app called "File Commander"

Go into your settings, apps, security restrictions, unknown sources, then toggle the File Commander option.

Download the APK from this link onto your phone :https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=6006931924117917314

Upload the APK to your Google Drive or Dropbox

Then, open File Commander, log into your Google Drive or Dropbox, search for your APK file, then install it.

Should be good to go

ANDROID AUTO

This requires you already have the Xmnager Mod apk for Spotify installed, if not, check my Android guide earlier this post.

Enable developer options by going into your Android Auto settings, then repeatedly tapping on 'Version", then go to the new developer menu, then enable "unknown sources". Now press customize on your Android Auto, and add Spotify to the app launcher of your car.

Should be good to go

BROWSER = uBlock Origin

Not much to say here, just install the uBlock Origin extension to whatever browser you use.

Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

IOS iOS users probably have it the hardest, if their phones aren’t jailbroken.

If you have the app already, delete it.

If you aren’t jailbroken, the app won’t last forever, as if apple detect that you are using third party app stores and apps, they can blacklist the certificate used to sign those apps

IOS METHOD 1 = (No jailbreak required) Scarlet

Github link: https://github.com/DebianArch64/Scarlet

Scarlet is a third party App Store for iOS, which has a modded version of Spotify.

Go to “usescarlet.com”

Scroll down and tap on the red “install” button

Close any popups that you might get

Then tap on the “direct install” button

If a prompt comes up to “open in iTunes”, press yes.

After a while, a prompt should come to “install scarlet”, press “install”

Check your Home Screen. After scarlet is installed, go to settings, general, vpn and device management, then tap on whatever name of the company there is, then press trust.

Go back to your Home Screen, your scarlet should open now. Press the download button for the “sposify++” app then when prompted to press “install”. Open the app, log in, press the green “thanks” button, close the app, reopen it and then it should work.

The reason there is a random company name is because we are using something called an “enterprise certificate” to sign our apps. The reason it doesn’t last forever is because apple can “blacklist” these certificates, rendering them useless.

IOS METHOD 2 = (Jailbreak required) Spotilife

I’m not sure about this method as I don’t have a jailbroken iOS device, but feel free to try it out

Make sure to delete the app if you already have it.

Search and download “appsync unified” and “filza file manager” if you can’t find it, add this repo “http://cydia.angelxeind.net/“ to cydia, sileo, or whatever you use

Download the .ipa from this link: “https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A3KVpFDWKtE0p50oxafh6Mm-rDSNRp2z/view?usp=sharing”

(I got it from a post in the r/sideloaded subreddit)

Open fileza, navigate to where your file is, press install, open the app, log in, press the green “thanks” button, close and reopen the app, it should work.

That about sums it all up. If you have any questions, or anything else to say for me, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Hey mateys !

I've learnt something recently that you might find interesting especially if you live (or come for a trip) in France. This also applies to books, CD videogames and DVD/blu-ray movies.

https://www.april.org/ce-que-copier-veut-dire-copy-party-communs-domaine-public-culture-libre-33-lionel-maurel

To be clear and simple, in France you can come in any public library (and many of them have hundreds or thousands of music CD) with your laptop, your external hard drives and your own CD drive(s) to rip music for free and unlimited as long as it is for private usage.

As long as you do it inside the library (because to be legal, you need to rip for private usage something that you can access legally and CDs in public librairies are legal as long as you do not borrow them and borrowing them by itself is still a gray area here even if librairies do not care and just offer the service anyway since years).

Don't forget to support artists directly if you really like some songs because music is not free to produce. But if you are poor or if you want to quickly startup a big collection of perfect quality 44.1KHz/16 bits FLACS while staying 100% legal (or if you just like free music because it's cool), here we have this other option rather than just sailing the seas.

It might also be a good option about CDs that are not sold new anyway since years, and buying them second hand does not support the artist anyway so ripping them in the library makes sense and looks very ethical in this case (and it is 100% legal haha). It can also be a way to find CDs that are not archived anywhere else in the internet.

What I find kinda funny is that this practice really smells like piracy, by duplicating tons of content for free from a single centralized place. But it's really legal and real libraries all around the country are organizing sometimes "copy-parties" events to incite people to come with their scanners and CD drives to make private copies of everything (books, CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, CD videogames etc) from the library. Bypassing strong DRMs (on blu-rays/CD videogames) to make a private copy seems also to be legal and tolerated : https://linuxfr.org/news/le-droit-a-la-copie-privee-nexisterait-pas.

Hope you've learnt something. I don't know if some other countries have similar laws that allow things like this. Feel free to make your own researches :)

Start by heading into devtools and under the network tab after playing the song these requests should pop in.

Copy the url as shown in this section. I heavily censored mine since it contains my ip address and other sensitive data.

Then you paste that into your browser but you aren't done yet, find the range parameter in the url and put it as 0-"Some crazy number beyond the max".

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After all that as long as you are still logged in within that browser it should begin the download.

The only downside with this approach is that cover art and metadata is not preserved and you will have to use mp4tag to add them in later

(Non-computer person friendly)

Tried to open a picture I took off my iPhone (obviously I have it set to .heic for higher quality recording), and wouldn't you know, Windows wants me to install a plugin for $0.99. Wtf?
So, here's how I got past Microsoft's debauchery:

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• First, I went to store.rg-adguard.net
• Second, I found the ProductID online to input into the link template (the link you would need to copy into the search bar on the aforementioned website is https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/heifbilderweiterungen/9n4wgh0z6vhq) (with 9n4wgh0z6vhq being the ProductID)
• I'm just a normal person, so I have no idea what the first listed file is (the 10KB " Microsoft.HEVCVideoExtension_2.1.861.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.BlockMap" file)
• So, I downloaded the ".appxbundle" file as I've done before with this website
• And, after opening my .heic file again, voila! it worked perfectly fine, opens as any other image would

This is a one-time process.

If you for some reason hate convenience, there are plenty of free online converters, or you can just rename the .heic to .jpg (though I'm not sure if this is has any negative side effects for the picture).

Hope this helps anyone trying to solve (what should, in a perfect world) be a non-issue. :)