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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago

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

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

www.windowscentral.com

mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago
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Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
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    https://invidious.io/

    it’s like lemmy: you choose an instance, make an account, import your subscriptions from YouTube and done. you can watch all channels from there

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      Ok, so there are hosted instances? At face value this looks like you need to self host. Which I am more than capable of both in terms of equipment and experience. I just don’t want to go that far to watch youtube. Thanks for explaining.

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        not many but there are

        https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

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