Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.
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HA! Jokes on them! I'm running a budget dell PC from 10 years ago! The PC itself is slower than any delays they cause! I'm talkin' 3-5 minutes to load each video. Sometimes the whole PC freezes, and you need to unplug it. Sometimes the browser crashes right at the end, so you gotta relaunch the browser, and then wait 20 minutes for all the tabs to populate. Then you gotta end task on all the individual windows. Then you gotta reload just the tab you're looking at, and THEN you can wait 5 minutes again.
You think I'm even going to notice your 10 second delay?
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It will happen eventually. All they need to do is start new/rotating keys on wildvine and put the ads at random times right in the stream, then disable fast forward if you use it to skip ads. It'll be a UX hit, so it'll need to be worth it to them.
In the end, they can't stop us from HDMI capturing and using comskip to detect / remove but there are a million ways to play tag between where we are now and that which don't require people posting videos to pirate bay
can't stop us from HDMI capturing
Look up HDCP.
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I've got 500Mb fiber internet and YouTube refuses to stream above 360p unless i manually change it. Which each update becomes harder and harder to do as they hide the video quality button somewhere else.
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I've been using this
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can't stop us from HDMI capturing
Look up HDCP.
There are HDMI splitter boxes you can get from China that conveniently strip out the HDCP.
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Clear cache
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uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:
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I noticed this today
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
Me too. I'm up to 3TB locally. Had to do that slowly though. Hit some temp bans a few times.
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If Google really wants to, they can crack down on
yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they're likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but...theoretically anything is possible so what
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There are HDMI splitter boxes you can get from China that conveniently strip out the HDCP.
it's not hard to do it yourself either
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There are HDMI splitter boxes you can get from China that conveniently strip out the HDCP.
They aren't fool proof, and relatively easy to detect from the source.
Source: high end AV tech for like half a decade
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I'd sooner spend five minutes waiting for the video to buffer than five seconds watching an ad
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No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?
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No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?
I have no answer. I’m almost 40 and could no longer care less about BabyTube. I’m now more interested in life and travelling. Long gone are the days where YT was interesting.
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I’m new to yt-dlp. Care to share your flags? I’m a little confused on which ones I actually need.
I like https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube gui. Only started using it yesterday, so far for indovidual videos. However it looks like it can also watch new videos being uploaded, thought not tried it myself.
Use docker compose for quick deployment
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We can live without YouTube, they can’t live without us.
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I've got 500Mb fiber internet and YouTube refuses to stream above 360p unless i manually change it. Which each update becomes harder and harder to do as they hide the video quality button somewhere else.
If you use Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-quality/
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I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:
$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config --embed-subs --embed-metadata --embed-chapters --embed-thumbnail --sponsorblock-mark=all $That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Note that subtitles doesn't include automatic subtitles. For that you have to do --write-auto-subs in conjunction
