HUGE User Privacy Breach: dirpy.com

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Good morning,

Okay so I’ve got a bunch of high priority tasks that I need to take care of over here at my place, but I dropped everything so I could create this thread ASAP. I feel very guilty because I was the one that said it seemed safe… I even paid for a premium membership when I should have just been using Cobalt.tools instead… :cry::cry::cry::cry:

“Cloud-based video downloader service Dirpy has been found leaking sensitive data on its users, placing them at risk of all sorts of cyberattacks.”
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This top online video downloader is exposing user data — and trust us, you don't want some of this data exposed | TechRadar

This was the post where I said it seemed safe. It seemed safe because it was a download service that didn’t require an installation and it was getting reviews verifying its safety for user privacy:

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I’ve been using J Downloader 2 and it works great

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Oh that… sucks.

what did you do to control the damage?

If you have a android phone, try newpipe? ut also offers download (both video and audio).

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I use JDownloader 2 as well, but for YouTube to audio, I use yt-dlp to download YouTube videos with audio only.

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I was gonna say, why use anything but yt-dlp or Tubular to download YouTube videos?

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People google “YouTube downloader” and end up using sites like Dirpy because yt-dlp for sure would not be listed. And it’s surprisingly compatible with other websites, but when it’s not, I use JDownloader2.

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