Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox
Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox
Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 4,156 points and 371 comments
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 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.
That's the fucking spirit. Here, I'm joining you. Fuck Google.
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.
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
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.
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.
Freetube on desktop, Newpipe on android. This is the way.
Revanced would like to know your location
This is what I do as well
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 :/
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
It's possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
*effect
But, yes, me too.
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.