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?

    • nicetriangle@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Yeah Freetube has been problem-free for me so far. I just used it an hour ago. Worked great.

      I also regularly JDownloader > Plex for longer form video podcast stuff I like watching at the gym. Also no issues there.

    • ruplicant@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      10 months ago

      yeah on Newpipe videos load fine. thanks to your comment I noticed Freetube is giving me an error with local API, so that’s why