Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  YT’s blocked on it.

  Just tried it. It works.

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  • DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.

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• lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video? I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that’s being consumed on another website.

  A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn’t work if you “hotlinked” to them on another website. Images aren’t a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.

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  • DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They don’t host anything, they’re just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.

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