Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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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.
I run portable Firefox on my work PC. I refuse to use chrome. some of our apps require Edge, but outside of that, I don't touch chrome.
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Wish they could use Gemini to generate ad clicks instead.
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Ok so im not crazy. I was wondering why videos kept buffering every minute this past week.
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
This is the way.
When YouTube wanted to throw me some entertainment and a couple ads, very conveniently, I was down for that.
Now that it's an all out technology knowledge battle - well, I'm quite good at that.
So I spend the time I would have laughed at their ad instead working around their bullshit.
I haven't seen an ad in years, but I still enjoy the same content.
️To me, it seems like they're working really hard, just to fail to serve me ads.
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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.
So say we all.
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Thanks.
EDIT: There isn't an
--embed-auto-subs, but there is a--write-auto-subs.Fixed thanks.
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Imagine adblock re-rencoding software that picks mp4s clean based on repeated content(ads). The user could select each ad as they happen, mark them as such and let it identify them from there. Imagine sharable or federated caches of these ad records between users.
Someone who can code, please, imagine it.
What they should be imagining instead is a better video sharing platform. There are alternatives already...
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I had to allow a bunch of stuff in pihole because I wasn't able to use Google flights or Google News and some functions in Gmail, the sites never finished loading
You might need a little bit of degoogleizer.
In a small dose, it eases the pain, but with the right treatment, your life will become yours again.
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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
I love how you’re just doing your bit lol
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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.
The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.
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What they should be imagining instead is a better video sharing platform. There are alternatives already...
Cause all you need is your imagination!
And billions of dollars to build and run the site with servers worldwide. No biggie
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Make me wait 5 mins on a black screen and I'll do that before watching an ad.
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I use adblockers, but I'm confused how this would hurt google if people using adblockers stopped using youtube.
Less views = less relevancy of the platform. For live streams they have always played second fiddle. For short videos there is even more competition. Just wait for China to open up Billie Billie or instead make a separate version for the west.
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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
A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I'd ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.
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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.
just use invidious instead
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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
Did you comment in the wrong place?
Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.
I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I'm not certain.
In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn't, well, it may help to know that it's out of place thematically.
Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond
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uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:
||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.comThanks I will try this
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Why do i feel like this happened a while ago? Like, isn't this old news? Or "olds" as it were?
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A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I'd ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.
I also asked some creators, but they can’t because of the Google partnership Programm, it prohibits reupload on other platforms
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just use invidious instead
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.
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