• UndeadFoodSnob@lemmy.world
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    I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.

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      That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.

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      I have been a premium user for years. Mostly because I was using Google music before. With all this crap they are pulling, I cancelled. I cannot support this anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.

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        If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…

        I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…

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        Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.

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          It does have it’s issues, can’t deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile

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        Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.

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          I found this is good explanation: https://lemm.ee/comment/4966310

          LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my “premium budget” too.

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      It’s possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.

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      I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.

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    I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.

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    Ive been noticing this recently too also buffering occasionally on random videos from time to time when im having 0 connectivity issues. This isint going to make the average person think firefox is bad but rather that youtube is garbage

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      I’m one of 5 people who have premium (I use YouTube Music) and they’re still slowing down videos for me. Also maybe it’s in my head, but I think the Google search has been taking longer too. I’ve noticed some extra loading time that doesn’t show up in Microsoft edge, or if I use duckduckgo/bing from Firefox.

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        I have had random freezing on the mobile Firefox for months now. I typically search in a private tab with a bunch of trackers disabled. If I do the same search in Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet (in their incognito tabs) the searches load. This seems like a block on Firefox itself

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      I would have thought the exact same thing. I like having videos play in the background so I wouldn’t have looked into it anyway.

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    Gonna keep talking about Peertube until it starts to take off.

    Seriously, how great would it be for your fave youtubers to have their own Peertube instance, and know that your donations go DIRECTLY to support them and maintain their server? With NO advertisements or possibility of Google shutting you down just cuz they dont like you

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    I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.

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    Yeah, user agent switcher set to chrome, made vids load immediately. Shitty move google.

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    I am not spoofing my user agent and I’m going to continue using FOSS front-ends to access YouTube until an alternative takes off. Fuck you Google.

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    What is a user agent changer you’d recommend? When I’m on Linux, I use a Firefox PWA as my YouTube webapp.