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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

https://invidious.io/

it's like lemmy: you choose an instance, make an account, import your subscriptions from YouTube and done. you can watch all channels from there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's not very straight forward lol?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

for us it is ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly, most of the instances seem to be completely nonfunctional. Nadeko.net seemed to be the only one working for months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yehh it's been a while since i used it and my instance seems to be down too...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, so there are hosted instances? At face value this looks like you need to self host. Which I am more than capable of both in terms of equipment and experience. I just don't want to go that far to watch youtube. Thanks for explaining.