I often used this site to download flac songs that I was unable to find on SLSK or other torrents. Is there an alternative to this site that anyone knows of. It will be missed.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    41•9 months ago

    Crap.
    But it already enshittified slightly. It had ad-block blocking and hostile tracking BS added recently. You’d have to manually unclick each vendor for the “Genuine interest” section which would take like 2 minutes as you had to click it one-by-one.
    Could have just kept the ads as they were and added a donation button.

    Anyway, I’ve also been using http://flacmusicfinder.com/ as well. However, this one just links to user-added content, so the quality may vary. I recommend using Spek to check the FLACs.
    It’s not as nice to navigate, but oh well, you only download every song once anyway.

    • BlxterOPEnglish
      13•9 months ago

      Yea one day when I tried it said I had to disable my ad blocker. So I tried with Firefox on my phone with ad block and it worked like a week later it was working on desktop again.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•9 months ago

      For the vendor (non-)consent thing - Consent-O-Matic provides an appropriate framework.

      (Whether such a side would even care about the preference/consent is another matter entirely - I’d suggest a throwaway browser identity and cookie auto delete for a start, anyway.)

      Creating rules has a bit of a learning curve the first three or seven times, but I find that more interesting to do than go through a hostile/dark pattern cookie dialog or such the third time.

      Hm, maybe the appropriate functionality from CoM could be re-wrapped as a TamperMonkey module…

      Web automation for the masses 😱