It’s okay, if it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download it and watch it later. You try to waste my time, I waste your server’s resources.
YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
Submitted 9 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2814755/youtube-might-slow-down-your-videos-if-you-block-ads.html
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phantomwise@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
rhpp@programming.dev 9 months ago
And as an added bonus yt-dlp defaults to maximum quality! Even more strain on YouTube servers!
Krompus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
yt-dlp is fucking awesome and it will be a sad day if it ever gets taken down or blocked.
suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
makertube.net, youtube is mask off at this point
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
How desperate can you be to put yourself out of business?
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 months ago
“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 anymore.
YouTube ReVanced on mobile and SmartTube Next on the TV still thankfully work without issues.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 9 months ago
where do you get your YT Revanced from?
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 months ago
revanced.app is the only official source (along with the GitHub, of course.)
rengoku@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 9 months ago
This does not happen on my Firefox. 4k no problemo with 3rd world country internet.
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They do it to groups of people at a time to prevent mass anger and hysteria. Don’t worry you’ll eventually get throttled too.
nevetsg@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I was watching 4k yesterday. 🤞 Ublock has it sorted by the time they find me.
MITM0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We need to find ways to pressurize the content creators to upload to alternative platforms like Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube, Misskey
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Youtube acting like it has anything to offer aside slop and people who think they’re philosopher kings because they play video games.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 9 months ago
Stop using it completely then, and we’ll see if that’s the case
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
there’s tons on there, just because you haven’t found it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The amount of people in this thread willing to go to bat for a corporate-owned entity is fucking weird.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Ai slop and right wing propaganda, copaganda and military propaganda
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Youtube acting like it has anything to offer
This is weapons-grade copium, there is no other platform with even 1% of the content on YouTube.
MITM0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds like projection but hey, you do you, it’s not as if we can learn from video games right
Guidy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
YouTube can die in a fire and take its fucking premium with it.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 9 months ago
I mean if they get forced ads I would understand, but at the current state I would say there are too many.
If YouTube premium was less expensive it would be a great in-between
I personally use YT premium and music by faking my country. Getting it for like 3.50€/month feels like a great deal
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Can’t slow down videos I’ve downloaded to my Plex server. 👍🏽
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 9 months ago
No, but Plex can. I’d migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex is paywalling more of their services.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
As it currently stands, my Plex setup costs me nothing because all I do it stream from my server to my Apple TV. So it works well enough for me.
Ratte@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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?
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
YouTube might just go fuck itself!
mhague@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But I don’t have adblockers installed and I still get told to turn my blocker off. I have no extensions and YouTube randomly stops my video to tell me I’m doing it wrong.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 months ago
Haha, I would see Youtube go bankrupt before I ever watch a single ad or pay for it. Stay mad. Google is a massive corp, I owe them nothing.
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Umm… Maybe. Let’s take a look.
www.statista.com/…/quarterly-revenue-of-google/:
In the first quarter of 2025, Google’s revenue amounted to over 89.52 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 79.97 billion U.S. dollars registered in the same quarter a year prior.
… They’ll survive.
I guess the content creators take the hit when users block ads or refuse to use premium.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s the same mentality of we shouldn’t mute ads or go to the bathroom when they come on. That’s the advertising businesses problem, not mine. They haven’t made life better for most of us.
mhague@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If I thought that way about YouTube, why not just be a sovcit about laws in general? I don’t want to cherry pick philosophy. Let’s go all in on technicalities and loopholes and definitions and wording. Life is a video game where X leads to Y because that’s the rules. YouTube is merely answering requests, and I’m merely watching a curated selection of data. They have a TOS but I never agreed to it. For I’m not a user or customer, but a Netizen, and we have rights.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 9 months ago
And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 9 months ago
If you are Content Creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms.
atlien51@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Bro those Mf should’ve started doing that YEARS ago like…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 months ago
The trouble with that is that there is barely any money outside of YouTube.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 9 months ago
That’s because of missing views though mostly, no? The ad revenue isn’t big anyways I think.
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I read somewhere that nebula was paying a good bit more per view, and paid per minute watched
atlien51@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They can upload to multiple platforms at once and still keep their YouTube money + grow an audience on a different website??
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
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.
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Being a majority artist owned co-op is in the fedi spirit. I know Rebecca Watson is crushing it on Mastodon, are there any other nebula/fedi crossover creators you’d recommend?
MITM0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Then support them monetarilly
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
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.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Their attacks are never a global rollout, you somehow dodged them all! Lucky.
RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
mitexleo@buddyverse.one 9 months ago
Time to pin Odysee and Peertube in my browser even though I pay for YT Premium (only $2 per month here in BD).
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Holy crap that’s cheap! Honestly, I’d pay that.
mitexleo@buddyverse.one 9 months ago
Yeah. Spotify also has similar pricing. I bought YT Premium as it includes both YouTube and YouTube Music.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
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.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You can block ad on tv by side loading smarttube
c10l@lemmy.world 9 months ago
On LG WebOS, the Homebrew Store has an Ad-free YouTube app that works well too.
p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.com 9 months ago
That’s a lot of effort for a website that mostly offers background noise.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh they already do as of this week. But I am sure it‘s only temporary like last time and even then it‘s better than being served an ad. Google won‘t win this feud.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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.
gegil@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
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.
ayaya@lemdro.id 9 months ago
I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like [Pinchflat] (github.com/kieraneglin/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.
jungle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait, you think all YouTube content is available in torrents?
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
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)
SmokingCookie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, I download whatever I want to watch and fire up vlc. 0 ads, 0 buffering.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Technically that’s 100% buffering.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 9 months ago
it already happened, it takes few seconds to star the video, a popup comes upa nd says, “whats slowing your video down”
Ulrich@feddit.org 9 months ago
Jokes on them, I already watch videos at 0.5x
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thats a good one for 0.5x (soup store)
youtube.com/watch?v=fNcYtcVn-8kyumpsuit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
how did you turn those anime boys into New York City grandpas, that was amazing
tymon@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I’m trying very, VERY hard to pound the correct knowledge into my brain to be able to switch my freelance business services away from Google to something like Proton Unlimited.
Leaving the Google ecosystem will literally make me lose work, but man, this shit has gotta stop
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 9 months ago
Depending on which services you want to replace, Nextcloud might also be worth a look. There are quite a few hosted options available by Hetzner and others.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The problem is, nothing short of NA and EU governmental intervention will force Google to stop being such a nefarious, monopolistic, antitrust piece of shit. They’re just so utterly ubiquitous for Western businesses. You literally cannot have a small business and hope to be successful without partaking in either Google or Facebook/Meta’s ad services. TikTok was becoming a huge threat to both those companies and look how viciously they were attacked.
The whole thing is beyond fucked, man. Kudos to you for trying to break free for your business, but I feel like you’ll just be fucking yourself in the long run.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Agree with this. For my business, and most customer facing ones honestly, Google is how people discover you. They are the modern day Yellow Pages. You don’t exist on Google and you may as well not exist.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.
If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’ve been doing this for close to 20 years. Ever since shortly after google bought them.
diptchip@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The banned my ip. Been looking at alternatives
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 months ago
How they ban you? They aren’t like reddit Nazis
diptchip@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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diptchip@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Must have been temporary. Pipepipe displayed a message saying ~“youtube has blocked this ip”, but it’s working now.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 9 months ago
They probably overused yt-dlp and are now required to fill a captcha + log in to an account.