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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it's just that YouTube's website is shite.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Oh no! What will I—Video Downloader. I'll just watch offline at my leisure.

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

https://joinpeertube.org/

[–] G4Z@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

I've been using this

https://skipcut.com/

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As much as I hate dealing with their shenanigans, I can’t really blame them either. As long as I can get away with using an adblocker, I will - but honestly, YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for. I have no moral argument for why YouTube should let me watch videos for free, even though I like free stuff just as much as the next guy.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for

That's the really annoying part.

I've been considering swapping to other services for a long time, but to follow the creators I want to follow I'd have to subscribe to Nebula and Floatplane and I'd still miss out on quite a few creators.

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[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I haven't noticed on Tubular.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean sure I guess but I can just like download them for later?

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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