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.
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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Clear cache
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
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Good, kill your product
I use adblockers, but I'm confused how this would hurt google if people using adblockers stopped using youtube.
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I can't tell an honest difference between 1080p and 720p from across a room. On a monitor, sure, but I grew up in the 90's. Anything 480 and above is tolerable to me.
I'm pirating it, should I demand my money back for poor service? Lmao
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I've been seeing this for a couple weeks now along with a popup telling me "ad blockers aren't allowed" at work where I'm forced to use Chrome. I have UBlock Lite installed. Typically a refresh takes care of the popup and a 10 second delay later, the video loads.
uBlock Lite is simply not as potent, so it's understandable it can be beaten. Almost like Google is abusing their monopoly
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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...Virtual desktop program that watches videos and uses sponsorblock and adblock after the fact to pick it clean and re-encode it.
I'm that level of anal
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theoretically anything is possible so what
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Right. At the end of the bullshit, the content still plays to completion if the user hits play. We can script and Ai and remove ads all day long after a program snags the feed.
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My ip was blocked a LONG time ago by google for using yt-dlp. Works with VPN but nothing else. Fun times. I think I only pulled a couple of videos off for archival services. On my own channel non-the-less.
I'd just hop a vps around to different countries.
...I'd never do it here, admins, honest lol
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Ive been commenting on creators videos asking them to upload elsewhere as well. I doubt it will work, but we could try
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Like it or not, YouTube still has a fuckton of good, informative tutorials and advice on how to fix things or make things made by individuals with a phone camera and no script, who make them not for money but for the pride in sharing their knowledge. I shared some fix it videos for my van and a very obscure phone, and consumed a lot of fix it videos for washing machines, motorbikes and furniture.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This. YouTube is extremely helpful for anyone who can't afford to take their stuff to a repair service or hire someone to fix something at their home. Just a few months ago, I thought my washer was done for, but it turned out to be a super simple fix that no website mentioned except for a super obscure YouTube video with only a couple hundred views. Saved me hundreds of dollars. There's countless other anecdotes like that over the years.
This is what sucks so much about Google's monopoly. I truly wish a cooperative of governments and/or academia created a publicly funded alternative as well as hosting an archive of YouTube on it. It would of course need to be administered by a non-partisan committee made up of representatives from multiple countries that had numerous safeguards against governmental political censorship. Hoping for a grassroots alternative is a lost cause, as the hosting and administrative expenses are just way too cost prohibitive, so publicly funded is the only solution I can see as being plausible
