Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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I've noticed occasional "buffering" before playback starts through the past week or so. Takes like ten seconds before the video starts playing. Hasn't been worse than that so far, knock on wood.
Youtube feels like an impossible service to actually compete with, whether through the enormous and complicated setup required or amassing creators/users. It's basically a monopoly and it sucks. One will just have to resist Google's bullshit using whatever means available for as long as possible.
Still I prefer buffering over the inane noises of commercials
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I've noticed occasional "buffering" before playback starts through the past week or so. Takes like ten seconds before the video starts playing. Hasn't been worse than that so far, knock on wood.
Youtube feels like an impossible service to actually compete with, whether through the enormous and complicated setup required or amassing creators/users. It's basically a monopoly and it sucks. One will just have to resist Google's bullshit using whatever means available for as long as possible.
Peertube is working on breaking the monopoly. I try to use it more.
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Ahh seeing images load line-by-line and you get excited as you can actually start to tell what the image is!
"Finally, a nipple!"
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Freetube works pretty well, there's a cat and mouse game with youtube changes though.
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I'm finding I'm using youtube less and less that I can't actually remember the last time I used it for anything. Youtube has so much crap now.
Because of their monetisation scheme for content creators, it was profitable for creators to drag 15 mins of information out to one hour, and then to include shock faces as thumbs to get more clicks, and then to get more viewers just to watch a bit of the video as viewership dwindles into just mindlessly watching suggestions.
I feel sorry for those creators who have gone balls deep with youtube content and who have no "plan b".
I think that says more about the channels you watch and your viewing habits. I enjoy STEM and STEM related channels; I don't experience the same as what you've described.
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Peertube is working on breaking the monopoly. I try to use it more.
Never happening.
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The US government: I know that, and I love you
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Never happening.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It kind of is already happening.
For example @[email protected] is soon to be making their instance available for state related institutions.Small steps in a big picture.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Exactly. I dont mind a little extra buffering. I mostly watch things in 720 or 1080, and I've barely noticed the change.
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Aha I'm not crazy! There was about a week where YouTube videos were so slow and we mainly use SmartTube on the shield TV, the fucked up part is I pay for YouTube premium, I just like the UI and options available on SmartTube better then the default app.
It did seem to get better, so maybe they realized I fucking pay for this service.
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This made me laugh. I wonder which one will prevail in the end
Piracy always prevails
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Yeah, I run multiple ad-blockers and haven't noticed any slowdown or other degradation.
I've noticed a lot of videos give me a still ad and make me click "skip" at the very start of videos through my ad blockers.
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Still I prefer buffering over the inane noises of commercials
Yeah, I'd genuinely rather watch whatever amount of seconds forced ads are of black, silent screen than see an ad. It sucks and is awkward, but whatever.
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So this is it. The enshittification has reached slowlorris levels.
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It kind of is already happening.
For example @[email protected] is soon to be making their instance available for state related institutions.Small steps in a big picture.
Edit: thanks for showing me how to tag @commentBelowwrote last edited by [email protected]Test comment, please ignore. Jerboa doesn't recognize that and I'm curious if the punycode version would be.
Edit: interesting. Yes.
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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
So it's not very straight forward lol?
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Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
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Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
Same on FireDragon with Garuda.
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Aha I'm not crazy! There was about a week where YouTube videos were so slow and we mainly use SmartTube on the shield TV, the fucked up part is I pay for YouTube premium, I just like the UI and options available on SmartTube better then the default app.
It did seem to get better, so maybe they realized I fucking pay for this service.
Or it was just a weird network issue. A week is a long time, though.
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So it's not very straight forward lol?
for us it is
