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Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

220 pointsby xonerytoday at 12:59 AM56 commentsview on HN

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inigyoutoday at 11:12 AM

This situation where bots have to run a headless browser in a new profile is just stupid. Can we have the old internet back? Please? Cloudflare you're not stopping bots, you're just wasting effort on both sides while siphoning access logs and passwords to the NSA.

dtagamestoday at 4:26 AM

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels.

https://tvexplorer.live

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hperrintoday at 4:48 AM

> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay.

Looks like Claude built it.

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slgtoday at 2:38 AM

Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.

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stef25today at 9:01 AM

Immediately worked for me on a simple Samsung bought 15+ years ago.

What's the best way to use it, write your own search to parse all the json pages https://vsembed.ru/movies/latest/page-1.json ?

krackerstoday at 1:49 AM

I thought the whole point of turnstile was that it detects headless browsers and it's supposed to be "difficult" to bypass. Apparently this just simulates clicking on the checkmark. Is it really that easy?

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rideontimetoday at 1:36 AM

Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?

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m00dytoday at 9:45 AM

>Castor launches headless Chrome with a randomized fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation.

you lost me in there.

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aussieguy1234today at 8:23 AM

Can this be used without a TV, lets say if I just want to play the streams with VLC?

xonerytoday at 2:27 AM

Docker version on MacOS might not find your TV.

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ranger_dangertoday at 3:04 AM

Can you cast to a Roku device with this?

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j45today at 2:33 AM

This is interesting, instead of a command line interface it made me wonder what an interface right on the tv could look like.

Comparisons to watching tv, are usually a TV interface, with a TV device/app, be it an Android TV/Apple TV, etc.

Maybe I'm missing it, I couldn't see a tv interface.

The part where it can send video to any kind of tv is a pretty remarkable piece.

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vivzkestreltoday at 4:56 AM

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