Peertube is working on breaking the monopoly. I try to use it more.
Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
I’ve noticed occasional “buffering” before playback starts through the past week or so. Takes like ten seconds before the video starts playing. Hasn’t been worse than that so far, knock on wood.
Youtube feels like an impossible service to actually compete with, whether through the enormous and complicated setup required or amassing creators/users. It’s basically a monopoly and it sucks. One will just have to resist Google’s bullshit using whatever means available for as long as possible.
dynamoMaus@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Never happening.
dynamoMaus@feddit.org 15 hours ago
It kind of is already happening. For example @lfdi@bawü.social is soon to be making their instance available for state related institutions.
Small steps in a big picture.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Test comment, please ignore. Jerboa doesn’t recognize that and I’m curious if the punycode version would be.
@lfdi@xn–baw-joa.social
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
Yeah, I run multiple ad-blockers and haven’t noticed any slowdown or other degradation.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
I’ve noticed a lot of videos give me a still ad and make me click “skip” at the very start of videos through my ad blockers.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
Still I prefer buffering over the inane noises of commercials
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Yeah, I’d genuinely rather watch whatever amount of seconds forced ads are of black, silent screen than see an ad. It sucks and is awkward, but whatever.