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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 192 points 10 months ago (14 children)

A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium.

Or just switching to ublock origin.

Or just switching to newpipe.

Or just switching to freetube.

etc

etc

etc

[–] HolyDiver@aussie.zone 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed source

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No expert but I believe they access the API directly.

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