Yeah, I'd genuinely rather watch whatever amount of seconds forced ads are of black, silent screen than see an ad. It sucks and is awkward, but whatever.

So this is it. The enshittification has reached slowlorris levels.

Test comment, please ignore. Jerboa doesn't recognize that and I'm curious if the punycode version would be.

@lfdi@xn--baw-joa.social

Edit: interesting. Yes.

So it's not very straight forward lol?

Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.

Same on FireDragon with Garuda.

Or it was just a weird network issue. A week is a long time, though.

for us it is

I watch ad free, and screen off through the Brave browser.
All good for now.

Same, using CleanTube.

I'm on Android w/ PipePipe & GrayJay and have been experiencing issues with videos loading a little then buffering for like 5 minutes

might be brain damaged but haven't noticed a slowdown or seen any ads in occasional use.

Same with Piped. Pinchflat downloads it so even if it were throttled when it fetches, it will play at local speeds

ublockorigin etc... 5 second unnecessary delay, very annoying . that's my experience

Is it possible to post the same video both to youtube and peertube without trouble? I wonder if this is prohibited cause I think many creators would mirror their content to peertube if they could.

Same setup, same results. I do intentionally keep the resolution low though.

I have no issues at all, once a vid is running. Choosing a vid takes much longer these days though, because the goddam stupid fucking algorhythm serves up 95% slop these days. Already viewed vids, ones expressly blocked, "news" stories that are YEARS old, or those in weird foreign languages, make up most of the garbage I get offered....

Same here, but do you notice how bad the algorhythm has become, at offering useful, interesting, or relevant vids..?

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

Ya that works too. At the time I discovered it I was using piped for a long time already. Greyjay had some more bells and whistles and the UI is more overwhelming at first. It also had a big that was annoying and functioned fine in piped so I stuck with that in the end. Also greyjay is a massive app by comparison if you care about that.