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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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[–] Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh no (continues to watch on freetube) anyway....

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Revanced Extended ftw!

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What is freetube? (Sorry for the stupid question)

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API).

It also integrates Sponsorblock!

Give it a go, it really is quite good

edit: hey, you're the guy I responded to about polls. lemmy feels like a small village sometimes

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

One of many different "third party frontends" for YouTube which, amongst other things, cut out ads and avoid performance throttling.

Personally I use one called NewPipe, and previously one called LibreTube. There are others too.