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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
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[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it's just that YouTube's website is shite.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Oh no! What will I—Video Downloader. I'll just watch offline at my leisure.

[-] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

https://joinpeertube.org/

[-] G4Z@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

I've been using this

https://skipcut.com/

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I had to allow a bunch of stuff in pihole because I wasn't able to use Google flights or Google News and some functions in Gmail, the sites never finished loading

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[-] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I noticed this today

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't noticed on Tubular.

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