I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.
If you get a user agent switcher and change your user agent for youtube to chrome then that slowing down goes away.
Wait I can do it just for YouTube? Never occurred to me. I’ll have to look into this
I noticed this today
Ive been commenting on creators videos asking them to upload elsewhere as well. I doubt it will work, but we could try
I love how you’re just doing your bit lol
A lot of my favorites are already on Nebula. I’d ask the rest to follow but that would require a google account.
I also asked some creators, but they can’t because of the Google partnership Programm, it prohibits reupload on other platforms
Great idea. Eventually, and if enough ask, it could be a thing.
might be brain damaged but haven’t noticed a slowdown or seen any ads in occasional use.
They cannot kill Adblocks, because if they would — a lot of html5 embedded YouTube videos would be coming worthless and so would youtube (discord for example)
Good, kill your product
I use adblockers, but I’m confused how this would hurt google if people using adblockers stopped using youtube.
Less views = less relevancy of the platform. For live streams they have always played second fiddle. For short videos there is even more competition. Just wait for China to open up Billie Billie or instead make a separate version for the west.
I’ve never seen anyone irl use an adblocker. Not even the teachers use an adblocker.
I asked a teacher why not, and they’re were like, “really, you can do that?”.
Techers are supposed to educated… so you have highly educated people not using adblockers. Imagine the average person.
There is not gonna be significantly lower views. Most of my classmates when I was in highschool, use iPhones, never sideloaded before, use the official youtube app, so they either paid premium or just suffered ads.
(These are the same kids that obsess over their $1000 sneakers… and also made fun of me for beng poor… I’m like: 🤦♂️)
Clear cache
No longer working for me on Firefox, Win11. Now what?
I have no answer. I’m almost 40 and could no longer care less about BabyTube. I’m now more interested in life and travelling. Long gone are the days where YT was interesting.
Wish they could use Gemini to generate ad clicks instead.
Sample size one but I’m on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.
Same with Piped. Pinchflat downloads it so even if it were throttled when it fetches, it will play at local speeds
I’m on Android w/ PipePipe & GrayJay and have been experiencing issues with videos loading a little then buffering for like 5 minutes
Same, using CleanTube.
Same setup, same results. I do intentionally keep the resolution low though.
Same on FireDragon with Garuda.
Freetube works pretty well, there’s a cat and mouse game with youtube changes though.
I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it’s just that YouTube’s website is shite.
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!
This made me laugh. I wonder which one will prevail in the end
Piracy always prevails
I’ll wait.
I have no issues at all, once a vid is running. Choosing a vid takes much longer these days though, because the goddam stupid fucking algorhythm serves up 95% slop these days. Already viewed vids, ones expressly blocked, “news” stories that are YEARS old, or those in weird foreign languages, make up most of the garbage I get offered…
