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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's a good thing I'm patient when it comes to when the videos load. If they keep doing this, I'll just find another platform. Nebula seems like it has the same types of videos I like to watch.

Of course, I can get into PeerTube as well.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nebula seems like it has the same types of videos I like to watch.

I mean, Nebula is commercial service and I assume that they'd profile, the same as YouTube. Like, if you're okay with that, you can get YouTube Premium.

Of course, I can get into PeerTube as well.

I'm still skeptical that this is going to scale sufficiently either in bandwidth or in amount of content.

https://peertube.fediverse.observer/ for people who want to try it, though.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, at least Nebula is owned by the content creators. Eliminate the middle man and all that.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago

Fair enough.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah Peertube is awesome. It already scales very well with its tech. Its been growing too. I think its good to have multiple alternatives. Its a good free option.

Ultimately the platform is the last important part of watching a video. If the creators can get more $$/activity going somewhere else they will. It happened to Vimeo, it will happen to Youtube.