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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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This should not be legal.
It’s probably not, and now?
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.
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.
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.
Maybe… Hope someone sues YT :)
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’
Gonna keep talking about Peertube until it starts to take off.
Seriously, how great would it be for your fave youtubers to have their own Peertube instance, and know that your donations go DIRECTLY to support them and maintain their server? With NO advertisements or possibility of Google shutting you down just cuz they dont like you
Your fav youtubers might host their own peertube someday, but there is still a lot of value in the other content that you don’t consume regularly like tutorials or random interesting stuff. Peertube is not the ultimate solution
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.
Begun, the Chrome spoof wars have.
Just use Invidious with LibRedirect. If everyone spoofs their user-agent to Firefox, Google will say ‘No one uses Firefox’
If everyone spoofs the Chrome user agent, they’re going to think that fewer and fewer people are using Firefox on YouTube, which is not ideal :(
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.
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit
What is a user agent changer you’d recommend? When I’m on Linux, I use a Firefox PWA as my YouTube webapp.
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
google’s been messing with firefox on yt for years.
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.
Wouldn’t that… just make me stop visiting YouTube instead of making me stop using Firefox?
I mean, my first reaction when a website is slow is not exactly “maybe I should change browsers”. It’s closer to “maybe I’ll visit a different website”.
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.
