I saw in another post from another r/ that someone mentioned privacy.com for hiding your bank card numbersfor payments, similar to how email aliases work.

I am wondering, has anyone used it, does it seem safe from a privacy point of view in terms of them not doing large data collection on users, and has it been a good service to use.

As the title says, how the hell can a video be downloaded from that site? I've signed up and paid for a specific content creator, but could not find a way to download videos, tried several chrome extensions, none work.

Is there any easy way?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Aqui deve ser o lugar certo pra esse tipo de perguntar:

Alguém sabe como ter acesso ao privacy, OF de alguma pessoa sem pagar?

Detalhe, é mina desconhecida, não é famosinha não.

Hey everyone! So, this kind of personal project isn't really LinkedIn material, so I'm sharing it here with you guys. I built a media downloader for Privacy. I'm not looking to monetize it, and I'm not sharing the code, but I wanted to talk about it.

I'm a QA Engineer, and I write code that, with a few tweaks, could easily become a scraper every day. It was never my intention to do something like this, but a friend makes some cash with scrapers on Apify, and I started studying to try and put something there. Then, the idea hit me: Why not create something to download media from a Privacy profile? Seemed like a good challenge, 'cause I'd never seen anything like it. I defined my tech stack and went for it. And it worked! I managed to create code that saves all the unlocked posts (I'm not a hacker!) from a profile you have access to (subscriber or free).

So far, so good. I did what I set out to do. Was it hard? Yeah. Props to the Privacy devs for making things as difficult as they possibly could. It was tough, and I had to Google a ton to figure out how to bypass everything. Coincidentally, the same technique could be applied to streaming services, so maybe my pirate life should have started there (just kidding, police!).

Testing and performance: The project uses a free and open profile I found for testing. For a sample of 51 photos and 21 videos, the project cataloged, downloaded, validated, and compressed all those files in 2 minutes and 13 seconds.

(Important to add my machine specs: Ryzen 7 AI PRO, 64gb ram)

I had trouble managing resources because I wanted to do everything in parallel: download all the photos at the same time, then all the videos at the same time. You need a lot of resources to handle that if the number of posts is huge. I ended up implementing a batch processing system, meaning I do 10 at a time (videos only).

Currently, I do it sequentially (photos first, then videos), but I think I can gain a few seconds of performance if I separate them and do both in parallel. I need to test that theory.

Since this isn't really my area of expertise, I'm open to tips on how to optimize the process even further.

The project was done in TypeScript and Playwright, along with several other libraries for handling requests, zip files, FFmpeg, etc.

For compliance reasons with the sub, I can't post anything showing it working because it contains nudity, so you'll just have to take my word for it.