• Psythik@lemm.ee
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    “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.

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    We need to find ways to pressurize the content creators to upload to alternative platforms like Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube, Misskey etc…

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    Youtube acting like it has anything to offer aside slop and people who think they’re philosopher kings because they play video games.

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      Sounds like projection but hey, you do you, it’s not as if we can learn from video games right

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      No, but Plex can. I’d migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex started paywalling some of their services.

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        Never used Plex, but as a proprietary software aren’t they just requesting money for functionality and usage of servers/traffic? Isn’t it just normal business practice?

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    If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.

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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??

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          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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      Idk how one gets content on Nebula, but I wish more creators would join. Ik nebula isn’t Fediverse like PeerTube, but I still really like it and think it’s worth the $30/year to not get ads.

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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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      I’ve been getting them over the last week or so on both Chrome at work (Ublock lite) and Firefox at home (UBlock Origin). It’s just a popup telling me adblockers aren’t allowed and then a second smaller popup saying something to the effect of “loading issues?” with a link as the video delays playing for a few seconds.

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      FWIW, I’ve been using ublock origin, too, and it’s mostly worked fine.

      Until a few days ago, when Youtube started detecting it and showing down the site and telling me I can only watch 3 more videos before it cuts me off. That hasn’t happened yet, but I definitely feel the slowdown. I’m hoping a ublock upgrade will fix it soon.

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      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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      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.

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    I mean, when I want to watch TV or Movies, I load it into my torrent program 🏴‍☠️ and let it download in the background. I could do the same with youtube videos.

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      I had a time, when i had frequent internet disconnections, and connection speed was slow in general, so while i had the internet connection, i just downloaded a bunch of videos, to then watch offline. Suprisingly, downloading video even with slow internet is faster than streaming it, despite when streaming it, videos was always buffering. Now i have stable internet and i can just stream videos without the problem, even by using third party app with no ads and without account.

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      I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like Pinchflat because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.

      All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there’s nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.

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        I mean like the downloading aspect. There are a lot of youtube downloading tools available for practically every OS desktop or mobile (well except iOS)

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    And this is different from the usual YouTube jank how, exactly? I can’t block ads on the YouTube TV app and it’s a buggy mess and I have no idea why one of the major tech companies in the world allowed that to happen.

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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.