Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I've been doing this with band love videos and storing them on a hard drive. One I love got taken down and almost lost a while back and it's made me paranoid ha
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fixed it by blocking the element
Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that
Lemme know if they ever reply.
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If you're on Android, get pipepipe from f-droid.
Not only is it a way better and more functional YouTube app, it doesn't do ads.
I like Grayjay
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fixed it by blocking the element
Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that
www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button
I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock
The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don't think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/So far it worked and I'm back to no ads and no interruptions
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just use invidious instead
This doesn't seem very straightforward...
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I have ublock, with sponsor block and some others, and don't have any issues on yt as of yet. Just in case though, how do I block an element and spoof a user agent?
YouTube does a shit ton of A/B testing so they probably didn't roll that change out to everyone yet. I currently don't have any issues either but they will eventually hit us with that shit.
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This doesn't seem very straightforward...
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
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fine by me i listen to audio of videos i watch and i dont mind the lower resolution because it means im using less internet
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I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up
They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow
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I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up
They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow
My wife and I were discussing this. This isnt "slow" to us, its just a tiny bit inconvenient. We were used to the old AOL pictures taking a good minute or two to load.
We would get rid of Youtube before we get ads.
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“Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.
Or "Might as well do EVIL", what is anybody going to do about it, maybe make some noise but we just pay off TACO and we good.
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God damn American companies love fucking up everything for money!
Just Americans?
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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!
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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
Ok, so there are hosted instances? At face value this looks like you need to self host. Which I am more than capable of both in terms of equipment and experience. I just don't want to go that far to watch youtube. Thanks for explaining.
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That's a relief. I've been dreading the day when they introduce server-side adsm but it seems we're not there yet
I'm not sure what they think they'll accomplish with this when it's A LOT less painful than turning off your adblocker and dealing with the ads, though. Maybe they're just trying random things to see what works. -
100%. Half the time I get blocked due to VPN or whatever I just close the tab and go with my life. The rest of the time I try all known workarounds. If those fail, I just go with my life.
My hatred for monopolisation and enshittification is stronger than my desire to watch content on any platform.
Lol, this is exactly why I use Lemmy. Sure there might be less engagement than reddit. But I'd rather gargle a bucket of diarrhea than go back to that shitty place.
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I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.
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I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.
What they had like 10 years ago a couple ads here and there. Not 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutes ad 5 minutess ad.
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I’m curious what people would prefer for revenue generation models. Just subscription fees? A lot of folks also seem resistant to that as well.
I would happily pay for yt premium, if that also meant that google does not violate my privacy and sell my data.
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Then I suppose it's a good thing they're limiting non-premium users from using the "high bitrate" quality options?
^ that was sarcasm. HARSH sarcasm. With both middle fingers pointing toward a Google logo and spitting.
