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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 193 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

AFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No expert but I believe they access the API directly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...

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