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mesa@piefed.socialBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

www.windowscentral.com

mesa@piefed.socialBanned to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Google is waging war on ad blockers — throttling YouTube to force users back in line
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The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.
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    just use invidious instead

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      It’s not perfect, but I use grayjay. They have an android app and a desktop client, and are usually pretty quick to make updates that will sidestep Google’s anti-adblocking measures (within 1-2 days.) Again, not perfect, but I don’t mind a slightly worse experience to avoid having to see an ad. Plus it has sponsor block support built right in

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      This doesn’t seem very straightforward…

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        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

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

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

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          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.

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            not many but there are

            https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

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          So it’s not very straight forward lol?

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            for us it is ;)

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