If it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download the video or whole playlist and watch it later. Do I care that it's putting additional strain on YouTube's servers? Indeed, I'm devastated and overtaken with guilt π These are tears of regret, I swear π
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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They've already tried this.
We've already sidestepped it.
It's just going to keep on going like this till a viable alternative shows up.
How? I've been noticing buffering the last few days with 1080p60 videos and up even using the suggested app version in Revanced.
"Might"? They're already doing it.
YouTube in Firefox with Ublock Origin is getting throttled down to 1500kbps. I can't watch anything above 720p on my desktop anymore (with gigabit internet).
YouTube ReVanced on mobile and SmartTube Next on the TV still thankfully work without issues.
I was watching 4k yesterday. π€ Ublock has it sorted by the time they find me.
This does not happen on my Firefox. 4k no problemo with 3rd world country internet.
They do it to groups of people at a time to prevent mass anger and hysteria. Don't worry you'll eventually get throttled too.
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How desperate can you be to put yourself out of business?
We need to find ways to pressurize the content creators to upload to alternative platforms like Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube, Misskey etc...
YouTube might bite me
YouTube can die in a fire and take its fucking premium with it.
I mean if they get forced ads I would understand, but at the current state I would say there are too many.
If YouTube premium was less expensive it would be a great in-between
I personally use YT premium and music by faking my country. Getting it for like 3.50β¬/month feels like a great deal
YouTube might just go fuck itself!
If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.
The trouble with that is that there is barely any money outside of YouTube.
I read somewhere that nebula was paying a good bit more per view, and paid per minute watched
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They can upload to multiple platforms at once and still keep their YouTube money + grow an audience on a different website??
Yeah, some of the Linux Youtubers do that. With a channel on Peertube as well. And Science Youtubers often advertise Nebula.
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There will be a solution for the adblocking side, there always is
Youtube acting like it has anything to offer aside slop and people who think they're philosopher kings because they play video games.
Stop using it completely then, and weβll see if thatβs the case
there's tons on there, just because you haven't found it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The amount of people in this thread willing to go to bat for a corporate-owned entity is fucking weird.
Youtube acting like it has anything to offer
This is weapons-grade copium, there is no other platform with even 1% of the content on YouTube.
Ai slop and right wing propaganda, copaganda and military propaganda . The MSMs are considered rw propaganda
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And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em
Thanks uBO team I don't even know yt is trying anything
Using uBO, but have noticed a slightly longer delay of a few seconds between hitting play and the video starting, but I can deal with that over being forced to watch 30s of ads.
Honestly it just felt like youtube's servers were shittimg themselves again, so I baely even register it as a real interruption.
There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I'd like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that's happening, thanks.
Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race.
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makertube.net, youtube is mask off at this point
Can't slow down videos I've downloaded to my Plex server. ππ½
No, but Plex can. I'd migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex started paywalling some of their services.
As it currently stands, my Plex setup costs me nothing because all I do it stream from my server to my Apple TV. So it works well enough for me.
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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.
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For about the last 3 years I've been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.
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The banned my ip. Been looking at alternatives
They've been doing this for close to 20 years. Ever since shortly after google bought them.
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That's a lot of effort for a website that mostly offers background noise.