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screenity
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alyssaxuu / screenity

screenity

The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥

6Distinct people
8Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
19KGitHub stars
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What it is

The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥

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Take a look at https://screenity.io/en/, which is also fully open-source here: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity While a Chrome Extension (not a standalone app), it does a…

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Observed mentions: 2020-11-19 16:02:45 UTC to 2024-08-29 12:34:09 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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shankspeaks·Aug 29, 2024Recommendation phrase
Take a look at https://screenity.io/en/, which is also fully open-source here: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity While a Chrome Extension (not a standalone app), it does a fabulous job of recording system audio and input, and also gives a ton of additional features like annotations, etc. Records to localstorage, and lets you export to a variety of 3rd party platforms (I can't remember if S3 is supported OOTB, but that shouldn't be too hard). I've used it mainly with GDrive, as most of our team lives there, so this has been a seamless way to store and share videos without lock-in at Loom. I recommend this to most folks who need a quick way to replace Loom, and even meeting recorder tools.
In Show HN: Open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3
1. uBlock Origin is an essential addon. 2. Ninja Cookie - Cookie banners and other annoyances can be blocked with uBlock Origin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvCGWwQr5o 3. Lastpass - Use your browser's built in manager. Chrome has a custom sync password and Firefox has a master password option. One less extension. 4. HTTPs everywhere can be avoided if you use Brave, as it automatically upgrades to HTTPs when available. You can set dom.security.https_only_mode to true in Firefox for a https only browsing experience. 5. Decentraleyes - Not that useful as it doesn't contain too many cached resources. Use LocalCDN if absolutely insist on using something similar. 6. Nimbus Screenshot - Screenity (https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity) is open source and much better. The more extensions you install, the more people you are trusting not to
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sell out. Most of these extensions request access to all sites (passwords, cookies, browsing history). Try to keep the number of extensions as low as possible. Productivity extensions usually lead to more wastage of time. I do not recommend anything. Use whatever you like.
In Best and free browser extensions to improve privacy and web experience in 2021
I have been porting the extension to Firefox, but I ran into a problem with getDisplayMedia (to record the screen). Apparently it can only be run through a user gesture (DOM event), but I have to run it from the background script in order to be persistent at all times, no matter if the popup is closed or the user closes or navigates away from certain tabs. It explains the lack of screen recorders for Firefox, the few I found have the workaround of opening a separate tab with a button to start recording, but it is extremely counter-intuitive, plus if the user closes that tab at any time, the recording would automatically stop. Here's the discussion in the repo if you'd like to share your thoughts, I could do that same workaround myself but I'm not fond of releasing an unintuitive product: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity/issues/3#iss
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In Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

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