Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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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 on 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 on 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
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I watch ad free, and screen off through the Brave browser.
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Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
Same, using CleanTube.
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Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
I'm on Android w/ PipePipe & GrayJay and have been experiencing issues with videos loading a little then buffering for like 5 minutes
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might be brain damaged but haven't noticed a slowdown or seen any ads in occasional use.
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Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
Same with Piped. Pinchflat downloads it so even if it were throttled when it fetches, it will play at local speeds
