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mesa to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
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      Hmm, but in this case you would be recording either the ads or the buffering.

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        Imagine adblock re-rencoding software that picks mp4s clean based on repeated content(ads). The user could select each ad as they happen, mark them as such and let it identify them from there. Imagine sharable or federated caches of these ad records between users.

        Someone who can code, please, imagine it.

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          What they should be imagining instead is a better video sharing platform. There are alternatives already…

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            Cause all you need is your imagination!

            And billions of dollars to build and run the site with servers worldwide. No biggie

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