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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 249 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It's an awful experience. But they'll leave my browser before my adblocker does.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 57 points 1 day ago

The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago

Same. When I opened the Stats for Nerds pop-up, I noticed that I was being throttled to 1500kbps. Anything above 720p was unplayable this week.

But apparently the Ublock Origin devs yet again figured out another workaround, because streaming speeds are back to normal for me as of yesterday.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

just use invidious instead

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

This is also a good beginner way to learn about self hosting in docker.

Freetube can make a great backup for when google inevitably breaks something.

And for thise videos you really cant miss there is always yt-dlp scripted to download a channels latests video on a schedule straight to jellyfin of course.

I have not visited the youtube website in more then a year.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem very straightforward...

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://invidious.io/

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

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, most of the instances seem to be completely nonfunctional. Nadeko.net seemed to be the only one working for months.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

yehh it's been a while since i used it and my instance seems to be down too...

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.