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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What's that federated video service that carries a bunch of YouTube videos?

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know about peer2peer but decentralized alternative exists. e.g. peertube

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.

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