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Ask HN: WTF Is YouTube Doing?
As of the past weekend, Youtube is almost unbearably slow doing anything on my iMac running Safari. Yes, I use a content blocker (1Blocker) and a DNS sinkhole (Adguard), BUT, I pay for Youtube Premium.
I finally started paying for Premium in response to their attempts to stop ad blocking, but now they have my money; apparently they never wanted it in the first place, just my data.
- pwg 3y agoyt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.
- night-rider 3y agoThis is what I use. You need to browse YT to get the relevant URLs you want to download, so YT will still be in the mix. Unless you source the URLs another way?
- pwg 3y agoI was using the RSS feeds, but some time after I added my comment, this appeared: > Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446 So besides the occasional forwarded link posted by someone else, one would have to browse YT (or search via a search engine) to find links to download.
- sp332 3y agoA few weeks ago when a lot of people complained about this, it turned out to be a bug in AdBlock. Try switching to uBlock Origin for a while and see if that helps?
- mtmail 3y agorelated "YouTube did not slow down adblock users. Adblock devs admit to problem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014268
- duringmath 3y agoYeah you have too many potential points of failure there, disable them then enable one by one to find the culprit.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt's been running terribly on Firefox for me but works fine on Chrome.
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