Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.

Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment

Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user

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[–] 162 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube...

    I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that's life when you choose FOSS...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It does have it's issues, can't deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    How does libretube compare with revanced?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Libretube is a totally different app whereas Revanced is just some patches on top of the official YouTube app, so the feature sets are going to vary a lot between the two. Libretube doesn't let you log in to a Google account at all (but it does support importing a subscription list).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I've been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that's stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I found this is good explanation: https://lemm.ee/comment/4966310

    LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my "premium budget" too.

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