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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 108 points 10 months ago (14 children)

A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium.

Or just switching to ublock origin.

Or just switching to newpipe.

Or just switching to freetube.

etc

[–] HolyDiver@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed source

[–] puppy@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

AFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No expert but I believe they access the API directly.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...

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