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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by animex on Monday December 11, 2023 @04:48AM (#38599089)
...but it asks for all your identifying information so their sales team can email, phone, snail-mail solicit you to upgrade...until their shit gets hacked and then they are paying out a multi-million dollar privacy settlement/fine :/
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by diggan on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:28AM (#38599652)
There is a link in the bottom right or left of that form that allows you to download without registering.
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by latexr on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:42AM (#38602124)
And for macOS it’s on the App Store, so no forms.
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by Almondsetat on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:11AM (#38599526)
You do know that you can just write gibberish in the download form, right?
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by sofixa on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:40AM (#38600526)
You never know, some vendors send you the download link / license file via email, so at least that part needs to be legit.
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by vik0 on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:51AM (#38600608)
Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by sofixa on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:05AM (#38601253)
Those are often blacklisted though, same as any mails on free TLDs.
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by franky47 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:01AM (#38600691)
That's what I thought too, but it's just a datawall, the link is available right after submitting.

So go ahead and John Doe it.

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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by Almondsetat on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:37AM (#38601516)
Just try once to check if they send the email?
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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by culi on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:49AM (#38600593)
you can use a disposable email https://temp-mail.org/

Or just maintain a personal throwaway email that's not tied to your real life identity

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Re:Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive... by flexagoon on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:52PM (#38618326)
You can just write whatever in that form. It doesn't get checked. That's why some distros have packages for davinci resolve - they just POST random data to the website. For example

NixOS:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/781e2a9797ecf0f146e814...

Arch:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=davin...

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