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Not to mention YouTube is all but unusable now. I understand that this may be local ISPs trying to kill YouTube by throttling it. But all I know is that I hav
by 300bps 13y ago
Not to mention YouTube is all but unusable now. I understand that this may be local ISPs trying to kill YouTube by throttling it. But all I know is that I have a 75/35 Mbps account from Verizon FIOS and everything else is unbelievably fast but YouTube which hardly ever works anymore during peak times.
- merijnv 13y agoHere in the UK I've noticed that accessing YouTube directly is slow, laggy and choppy. But when I accidentally visited while using a SOCKS proxy running over a VPS in the US it was snappy. After some more testing it seems that my local ISP is indeed throttling YouTube, but their inability to look inside an SSH tunnel means I can still access it at decent speed.
- johnward 13y agoYou tube is basically real player now. Buffering...
- endgame 13y agoI switched to HTML5 video for youtube because I don't have flash on this machine. Initially I couldn't watch about 30% of videos because "flash player is required". Now it's closer to 90% - either because "flash player is required" or "this video is unavailable" - and yet the youtube-dl script still works. Stop lying to me, Google!
- tl 13y agoAs an additional insult, when an item in my RSS feed is a YouTube video, I can play it in Feedly in a (flashless) Safari. However, if I go to the youtube page (the embedded version in Feedly lacks fullscreen, for example), "flash player is required." Who is youtube's most viable competitor? Vimeo? Is there anything consumers can do to encourage content to be posted there instead?