Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.
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Grayjay :)
YT's blocked on it. Fuck you, Google.
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/2351
If Google's going to be further tightening YT to the degree where they might roll out DRM platform-wide as opposed to just limiting it to movies on the platform, I'm about to seriously start looking for stuff to watch on PeerTube because YT is not long for the world and will probably start pushing away anything that isn't AI slop at some point in terms of content.
UPDATE: A workaround has been released for this issue.
YT's blocked on it.
Just tried it. It works.
Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.
Does grayjay rehost content from YouTube or are they using the YouTube backend for streaming video? I would be quite annoyed if anyone used my website as a host for content that's being consumed on another website.
A few years ago (and to a lesser degree nowadays) you occasionally came across images which wouldn't work if you "hotlinked" to them on another website. Images aren't a huge deal anymore but video absolutely is.
They don't host anything, they're just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.
And no ads I presume.
Understandable that they would block it.
Bless you.