Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

[pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip]

This is the way.

When YouTube wanted to throw me some entertainment and a couple ads, very conveniently, I was down for that.

Now that it's an all out technology knowledge battle - well, I'm quite good at that.

So I spend the time I would have laughed at their ad instead working around their bullshit.

I haven't seen an ad in years, but I still enjoy the same content. ‍️

To me, it seems like they're working really hard, just to fail to serve me ads.

[generallynonsensical@sh.itjust.works]

So say we all.

[lodemike@lemmy.today]

Fixed thanks.

[pushbutton@lemmy.world]

You might need a little bit of degoogleizer.

In a small dose, it eases the pain, but with the right treatment, your life will become yours again.

[atlien51@lemm.ee]

I love how you’re just doing your bit lol

[zurohki@aussie.zone]

The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

Make me wait 5 mins on a black screen and I'll do that before watching an ad.

[saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org]

Less views = less relevancy of the platform. For live streams they have always played second fiddle. For short videos there is even more competition. Just wait for China to open up Billie Billie or instead make a separate version for the west.

[melodiousfunk@slrpnk.net]

A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I'd ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.

[stebo02@sopuli.xyz]

just use invidious instead

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I'm not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn't, well, it may help to know that it's out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

[chivera@lemmy.world]

Thanks I will try this

[mr_dr_oink@lemmy.world]

Why do i feel like this happened a while ago? Like, isn't this old news? Or "olds" as it were?

[letak@feddit.org]

I also asked some creators, but they can’t because of the Google partnership Programm, it prohibits reupload on other platforms

[webghost0101@sopuli.xyz]

This is also a good beginner way to learn about self hosting in docker.

Freetube can make a great backup for when google inevitably breaks something.

And for thise videos you really cant miss there is always yt-dlp scripted to download a channels latests video on a schedule straight to jellyfin of course.

I have not visited the youtube website in more then a year.

[colonelsharki@lemmy.world]

Is google’s company motto still ‘Don’t be evil’?

[theangryseal@lemmy.world]

I’ve been dealing with this forever.

Some issues I have that I only deal with when I’m not signed in without an adblocker:

If I try to skip back to a spot in a video, I get the loading circle and sometimes it doesn’t come back until I refresh the page. I have to make a mental note of the time and do that pretty often.

In safari and Firefox I will get a black box for about 40 seconds, no play button, and sometimes I have to refresh the page a few times just to get it to work at all.

Comments will not load sometimes until I refresh the page, sometimes more than once.

The video will sometimes stop and start “loading” while I’m watching it. The solution is always a page refresh or two.

Signed in with an adblocker, the problems drop by about 50% (pulled that number out of my ass, but I’d be willing to bet it’s close). Signed in with no adblocker on Firefox or Safari and the issues become significantly less noticeable, with exceptions from time to time. Signed in with no adblocker on chrome or edge, I experience none of this.

I believe they purposely throttle it on non chromium browsers too.

Sorry if this comment is jumbled. Woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache, got bored waiting for it to pass, so now I’m here and barely conscious.

[remon@ani.social]

Yep, for me it ha been "fixed" for about a week now.

[critical_thinker@lemm.ee]

They removed that from their official code of conduct in 2018.

[timetraveller@lemmy.world]

So say we all.