Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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it's not hard to do it yourself either
How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I've never looked into this.
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Been using revanced for months and haven't noticed a difference other than no ads or sponsors on bigger channels.
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HA! Jokes on them! I'm running a budget dell PC from 10 years ago! The PC itself is slower than any delays they cause! I'm talkin' 3-5 minutes to load each video. Sometimes the whole PC freezes, and you need to unplug it. Sometimes the browser crashes right at the end, so you gotta relaunch the browser, and then wait 20 minutes for all the tabs to populate. Then you gotta end task on all the individual windows. Then you gotta reload just the tab you're looking at, and THEN you can wait 5 minutes again.
You think I'm even going to notice your 10 second delay?
try to get a ssd from somewhere, that gives devices like yours a second life (and if you switch to linux it gets even smoother - sorry i couldn't resist)
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How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I've never looked into this.
Open PassDCP software is one method, or you can obtain a splitter that strips hdcp
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“Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.
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I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
I've been doing this with band love videos and storing them on a hard drive. One I love got taken down and almost lost a while back and it's made me paranoid ha
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fixed it by blocking the element
Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that
Lemme know if they ever reply.
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If you're on Android, get pipepipe from f-droid.
Not only is it a way better and more functional YouTube app, it doesn't do ads.
I like Grayjay
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I thought I'd noticed slowdown recently. Videos taking longer to begin, starting on a lower quality before upscaling etc
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fixed it by blocking the element
Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that
www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button
I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock
The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don't think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/So far it worked and I'm back to no ads and no interruptions
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just use invidious instead
This doesn't seem very straightforward...
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I have ublock, with sponsor block and some others, and don't have any issues on yt as of yet. Just in case though, how do I block an element and spoof a user agent?
YouTube does a shit ton of A/B testing so they probably didn't roll that change out to everyone yet. I currently don't have any issues either but they will eventually hit us with that shit.
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This doesn't seem very straightforward...
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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fine by me i listen to audio of videos i watch and i dont mind the lower resolution because it means im using less internet
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I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up
They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow
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I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up
They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow
My wife and I were discussing this. This isnt "slow" to us, its just a tiny bit inconvenient. We were used to the old AOL pictures taking a good minute or two to load.
We would get rid of Youtube before we get ads.
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Like it or not, YouTube still has a fuckton of good, informative tutorials and advice on how to fix things or make things made by individuals with a phone camera and no script, who make them not for money but for the pride in sharing their knowledge. I shared some fix it videos for my van and a very obscure phone, and consumed a lot of fix it videos for washing machines, motorbikes and furniture.
Give it a couple of years. AI is just getting started.
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“Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.
Or "Might as well do EVIL", what is anybody going to do about it, maybe make some noise but we just pay off TACO and we good.
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God damn American companies love fucking up everything for money!
Just Americans?
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A wild YouTube appeared!
Go, uBlock Origin!
Wild YouTube used Throttle!
It's not very effective...
uBlock Origin used Evolve!
It's super effective!
YouTube fainted!
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