Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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As much as I hate dealing with their shenanigans, I can’t really blame them either. As long as I can get away with using an adblocker, I will - but honestly, YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for. I have no moral argument for why YouTube should let me watch videos for free, even though I like free stuff just as much as the next guy.
YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for
That's the really annoying part.
I've been considering swapping to other services for a long time, but to follow the creators I want to follow I'd have to subscribe to Nebula and Floatplane and I'd still miss out on quite a few creators.
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
DVRs are back in 2025. Who would have thought?
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Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent
Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant's comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn't really provide details LOL
wrote on last edited by [email protected]fixed it by blocking the element
Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that
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As much as I hate dealing with their shenanigans, I can’t really blame them either. As long as I can get away with using an adblocker, I will - but honestly, YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for. I have no moral argument for why YouTube should let me watch videos for free, even though I like free stuff just as much as the next guy.
oh i absolutely can blame them, because they made a choice.
either you take my money and respect my privacy, or you sell all of my data and won’t get my money.
however you can’t sell all of my data and take my money, nono, f u alphabet, that’s not how this works. -
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God damn American companies love fucking up everything for money!
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YT's blocked on it. Fuck you, Google.
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/2351
If Google's going to be further tightening YT to the degree where they might roll out DRM platform-wide as opposed to just limiting it to movies on the platform, I'm about to seriously start looking for stuff to watch on PeerTube because YT is not long for the world and will probably start pushing away anything that isn't AI slop at some point in terms of content.
UPDATE: A workaround has been released for this issue.
YT's blocked on it.
Just tried it. It works.
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it's not hard to do it yourself either
How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I've never looked into this.
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Been using revanced for months and haven't noticed a difference other than no ads or sponsors on bigger channels.
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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?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]try to get a ssd from somewhere, that gives devices like yours a second life (and if you switch to linux it gets even smoother - sorry i couldn't resist)
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How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I've never looked into this.
Open PassDCP software is one method, or you can obtain a splitter that strips hdcp
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“Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.
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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
