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- technology@lemmy.world
Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.
Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment
Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user
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I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.
Ublock origin blocks all ads and their stupid pop-up.
CloudTube is the way!
CloudTube is an alternative online front-end for YouTube icon YouTube. CloudTube provides interfaces to display that data, like a video player, search listings, channel views, and subscription management. It can use either NewLeaf or Invidious icon Invidious instance to initially collect that data.
A hosted CloudTube + NewLeaf is available at https://tube.cadence.moe for everyone to try. This project organises the repositories CloudTube and NewLeaf. NewLeaf extracts data from YouTube pages.
I pay for premium (I know)… is it a breach of contract for them to deny equal speeds because of a corporate preference? Is YouTube (and Google) in breach of contract?
I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.
EDIT: I’ve seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol.
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
google’s been messing with firefox on yt for years.
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit
Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
Fuck Google
Use Invidious or Piped to bypass the ads, tracking as well as the slow down. You can combine it with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped. Works like a dream. Another option is FreeTube, it’s a desktop client for YouTube that can also use the Invidious API.
I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.
I found this is good explanation: https://lemm.ee/comment/4966310
LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my “premium budget” too.
That’s actually quite interesting, thank you, I’ll definitely have to look into that more
Try newpipe through f-droid
Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.
It does have it’s issues, can’t deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile
How does libretube compare with revanced?
Libretube is a totally different app whereas Revanced is just some patches on top of the official YouTube app, so the feature sets are going to vary a lot between the two. Libretube doesn’t let you log in to a Google account at all (but it does support importing a subscription list).
Any method for blocking ads / patching chromecast? My kids and I do the majority of our YT surfing from the couch.
Not that I know of, sorry! It looks like third-party apps like Newpipe don’t support Chromecast :/
Freetube on desktop, Newpipe on android. This is the way.
Revanced would like to know your location
This is what I do as well
If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…
I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…
I’m not sure if this post was /s or not, but ViewTube is actually pretty easy to self host if you have a docker host in your current environment. They even provide a docker compose example on the wiki.
*effect
But, yes, me too.
To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.
I have been a premium user for years. Mostly because I was using Google music before. With all this crap they are pulling, I cancelled. I cannot support this anymore.
That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.
It’s possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
I am not spoofing my user agent and I’m going to continue using FOSS front-ends to access YouTube until an alternative takes off. Fuck you Google.
I use https://piped.video/trending as an alternative to YouTube.
I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.
Net neutrality is about ISPs though.
Google isn’t an ISP when it comes to youtube. Yes, they are an ISP in the context of Google fiber but this is completely different. It would be a violation of net neutrality if they slowed certain sites to fiber users.
And the EU laws.
Cries in UK.
And my axe.
Well played.
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Yeah but that was back when we had a mostly functional government. Times have changed.
Disfunctional goverment benefits the rich almost exclusively. Sad days ahead.
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
Yes… many years later, and while those lawsuits were slowly being resolved, Microsoft was busy laying the groundwork for other bullshit that was unethical but not technically illegal.
If you actually expect a solution in a reasonable amount of time, either invent time travel or spoof Chrome.
Is this only in certain areas? YouTube is still working fine for me on FireFox.
I think I have some slowdowns FF with unlock Origin in Germany so maybe
I’m in America and I haven’t noticed any YT slowdowns.
