Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

undeadfoodsnob@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.

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• doink@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.

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  • Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Freetube on desktop, Newpipe on android. This is the way.

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      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Revanced would like to know your location

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      • b0gl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is what I do as well

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    • illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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      • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How does libretube compare with revanced?

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  • DuskyRo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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…

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    • Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I found this is good explention:

      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.

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      • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’d actually quite interesting, thank you, I’ll definitely have to look into that more

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    • b0gl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try newpipe through f-droid

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• kubica@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.

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• zzzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *effect

  But, yes, me too.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?

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• ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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