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```
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_Because selling out is bad_
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## How to use
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MKBSD comes in two variants! Node.js and Python.
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### Running in Node.js
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1. Ensure you have Node.js installed.
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2. Run `node mkbsd.js`
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3. Wait a little.
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4. All wallpapers are now in a newly created `downloads` subfolder.
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### Running in Python
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1. Ensure you have Python installed.
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2. Ensure you have the `aiohttp` Python package installed (`pip install aiohttp`).
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3. Run `python mkbsd.py`
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4. Wait a little.
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5. All wallpapers are now in a newly created `downloads` subfolder.
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## FAQ
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### Q: What's the story behind this?
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On September 24th, 2024, well-known tech YouTuber MKBHD released Panels, a wallpaper app that:
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- Had insanely invasive, unjustified tracking including for location history and search history.
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- Charged artists a predatory 50% commission (even Apple takes only 30% for app purchases).
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- Forced you to watch two ads for every wallpaper that you wanted to download, and then only letting you download it in SD.
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- Gatekept all HD wallpapers behind a **fifty dollars a year subscription**.
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- Had many wallpapers that were essentially AI-generated slop or badly edited stock photos.
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Especially given MKBHD's previous criticism of substandard companies and products, people justifiably got upset given that this looked like a pretty blatant grift and cash-grab that is exploitative of the fan base that's trusted his editorial integrity over the past fifteen years. However, on the same day, MKBHD wrote a post doubling down on the app.
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### Q: Aren't you stealing from artists by running this script?
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MKBSD accesses publicly available media through the Panels app's own API. It doesn't do anything shady or illegal. The real problem here is Panels and MKBHD's complete inability to provide a secure platform for the artists that they're ~~exploiting~~ working with. Any other app could have avoided the issues that make MKBSD possible had it been engineered competently.
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### Q: What does this download?
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MKBSD downloads 378 images, which are not worth your time.
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## License
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DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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Version 2, December 2004
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Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
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copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
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as the name is changed.
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DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
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```
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