Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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Most likely, especially if it's not locked to one device. I know about their premium lite sub, but 8 dollars for "less" ads isn't going to do it for me.
That’s how much my student subscription is, that’s why I was curious. I think it’s $6.99 plus tax?
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Why aren't you using another platform?
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A wild YouTube appeared!
Go, uBlock Origin!
Wild YouTube used Throttle!
It's not very effective...
uBlock Origin used Evolve!
It's super effective!
YouTube fainted!
This made me laugh. I wonder which one will prevail in the end
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strip out the HDCP
Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn't kept up with what was actually around.
But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you'll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.
We'll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven't made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.
It's certainly not an ideal solution, but it's an option that will usually work.
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Yea, I have a couple more that I forget does what (I think a couple are for hiding youtube games and shorts and stuff), but it should just look like this in my filters.
Ty so very much kind person.
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Why aren't you using another platform?
Because YouTube is where shit happens dude. Yeah sure theres peertube and others, but frankly, nobody that people care about are uploading to them. Not to mention they don't offer the monetization opportunities for creators that YouTube does.
Ad block and sponsor block and call it a day.
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I've been seeing this for a couple weeks now along with a popup telling me "ad blockers aren't allowed" at work where I'm forced to use Chrome. I have UBlock Lite installed. Typically a refresh takes care of the popup and a 10 second delay later, the video loads.
I switched to Firefox basically as soon as ublock origin didn't work on chrome. It was easier than I thought it would be.
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I didn’t know if I’m crazy or of YouTube is genuinely slow for me (with adblocker)
Turns out I was not crazy
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean, you can never really rule it out..
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Just Americans?
American flavoured capitalism has poisoned the well.
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I had to turn off privacy badger and ublock for it to not be slow. It's stupid I'm paying for the service to be ad free it should be ad free without complaints.
Your premium tier has been upgraded to the basic plan with ads at no extra charge for you yet, Dear Customer! Aren't you happy?
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Down with google
And his stupid CEO specifically. I've yet to hear him pitch a good idea.
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I use SponsorBlock for more than just skipping sponsored segments. It's also useful for skipping intros, "like and subscribe" messages, and other general annoyances in most YouTube videos. Once you get used to it, you can't go without.
Same here. The SponsorBlock in SkyTube skips intros and "like and subscribe", too. Even in downloads.
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Same here. The SponsorBlock in SkyTube skips intros and "like and subscribe", too. Even in downloads.
Good to know, thanks.
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That's true but I wouldn't really classify this as evil.
Serving videos isn't easy or cheap. It's hard and expensive.
I obviously use an adblocker everywhere and so should you.
But saying that Google or anyone else is doing anything wrong by blocking adblockers is ridiculous. When they finally succeed, I will just accept that I finally lost after many many years. My usage of YouTube will likely go down substantially as well.
Crying about it after you have used their service for free for YEARS, really makes no sense.They can get fucked. A while ago O was like you know what let's give them money, seems only fair. So I finally subscribed, and then like a month later they sent me an email they're raising the prices effective immediately - basically changing the deal on me without any delay.
So I unsubscribed, because fuck that.
More recently I looked into sharing the family plan with ...my family, but it turna out they consider family only in a single household, and I'm not gonna try to give them money while also potentially having to prove how much of a family we are, so yeah...
Fuck them, either take my money when I'm actually trying, or I guess they didn't need it that bad. I'm over YouTube, and would probably ditch it earlier than ever watching an ad there.
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Interesting. I didn’t think anyone was cool with any ads.
I'm fine with reasonable ads. Plex Live TV has ads that don't always get caught by NextDNS for me and it's always some local business and like 30 seconds, NBD it's a free service and needs to operate somehow and I'm not aware of any major privacy breaches from Plex. I feel the same way about YT video sponsor segments, they don't always get caught by ReVanced, also, NBD the creator also needs to get paid for their work.
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it's like lemmy: you choose an instance, make an account, import your subscriptions from YouTube and done. you can watch all channels from there
Sadly, most of the instances seem to be completely nonfunctional. Nadeko.net seemed to be the only one working for months.
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Sadly, most of the instances seem to be completely nonfunctional. Nadeko.net seemed to be the only one working for months.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]yehh it's been a while since i used it and my instance seems to be down too...
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Pass on what? Using YouTube at all?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Pass on sticking within the bounds of treason and tyranny. I'm gonna keep idealizing beyond that.
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Why aren't you using another platform?
Because I don't watch random videos, I watch people I'm subscribed to and they don't exist on other platforms. I would love to switch, really. The very fact I'm on Lemmy tells you that I'm open to doing that kind of thing.
