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And this right here ladies and gentlemen (and other) is why we need to host our own. Hopefully somebody comes up with a peer2peer based youtube competitor.
Nope, still too easy to get around.
It was happening for several days with me but it seems to be fixed now
How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?
I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.
Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
Little do these companies know that poor people know how to be patient and older people remember the days of free ad supported internet dialup via cds, so this is not new and people will continue where business models fail.