For some time, trying to watch videos on Invidious or Freetube has been a pain. It has been oscillating day by day but now I get like 3 seconds of video for 8 seconds of loading time

Some days ago I saw a notice on top of the webpage in some Invidious instances stating something like “Youtube is trying to impede frontends”

Today i tried going to youtube.com and enabling some requests on uBO and videos loading freakin’ fast

Is anyone getting the same?

  • shootwhatsmyname
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    810 months ago

    I’ve found small invidious instances seem to work better. There’s also Piped

    • @ruplicant@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      310 months ago

      damn, even with seeing the bot around here i forgot to try Piped these days

      anyway, i’ve found a solution - i had “proxy videos through Invidious” turned on on Freetube (which was redundant since i’m behind a VPN). i’ve unchecked it and things seem fime now

      still, thank you