I’ve been noticing these around. Sonar catches them and I just delete them and research. I found that it’s often for the next weeks episode of a show. Only days after the previous episode came out. So it’s easy to see something that looks suspect anyway.
Keep in mind that cosmic is still in an alpha build. It’s missing a lot of features and his buggy here are there. I’m sure it will be pretty awesome and once it releases it 1.0 version.
Is this one of those things where people try to install Linux on something simply to see if it can be done, or is there a practical upshot to this?
Nope, not without a YouTube login to verify age. I just ran into this the other day.
Both gnome and KDE have this functionality built-in to the system now. It’s under display settings.
There is an app called playon which allows you to record shows from streaming services. It has both a Mac and a Windows version.
A lot of options are disabled for “privacy reasons”. There is no halfway approach. It’s all or nothing with their strict privacy settings.
For some, that’s perfect. For others, who want a more tailored privacy experience, it’s not a really great option.