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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Invidious and Piped fix this issue. You can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

there's no slowdowns on freetube either

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

FreeTube is great but I personally prefer a browser-based solution

[–] zingo@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Going with freetube desktop app (flatpak) on Linux.

No slowdown here.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and UntrackMe on android!

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

UntrackMe is nice, but it's not required for YouTube link redirection on Android as LibreTube and NewPipe natively support opening YouTube links.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great if you have those apps installed, but UntrackMe also does twitter -> nitter, reddit -> libreddit, and a few other services too

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

That's true and that's the reason I use UntrackMe.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense and improves privacy but they're not going to win on speed, not even on Firefox, unless you host a private instance or use a nearby-hosted one.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

By default, when using Invidious, your browser loads the video right from Google, you can proxy videos through the Invidious instance but it's disabled by default. Only Piped always proxies videos through the Piped server.