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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 214 points 17 hours ago (3 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 39 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 115 points 16 hours ago (2 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.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

just use invidious instead

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

This doesn't seem very straightforward...

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 hours 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.