Reddit post on this.
Apparently PC Gamer is reporting a 15% CPU usage spike, on top of the throttled buffering.
Louis Rossmann has a video on it, too.
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I have grown up with 32kb/sec downloads youtube has no power here.
The good old days of opening several tabs of a movie that was cut into small pieces so they would load while you did something else.
I still hate that you can't just buffer a whole video up by clicking play then pause then doing something else for half an hour.
They intentionally removed that for some god awful reason
Harder to download video if broken up.
I used to do that all the time back when I was a teenager hijacking my neighbour's wifi signal. One of the things I miss most about early youtube.
Ah yes, I remember back when it took a whole day to download an episode of anime and if anyone used the phone you had to start over from scratch.
Good times.
Goz!lla was awesome.
Give it a day or two and the Brave browser developers will have figured out how to bypass that too, just like every other measure youtube recently attempted.
I personally have seen no difference whatsoever.
Love Waterfox. Use it and Brave. Different google accounts on each. Waterfox account has no issues with buffering or the stern warnings about ads. On Brave I have to purge and update the caches in uBlock Origin a couple times a day to avoid them.
It's funny. Youtube seems to be really desperate for money. With adblock disabled I get literal scam ads.
Shit like "Watch these colorful mantra pictures to turn on your brain glands. It's so much more convenient than listening to brain wave songs!" or "Some student invented a miracle energy saving heater that saves so much energy big-heating had him exmatriculated from his university and investors are flooding him with money!" which turns out to be a cheap ass 20$ wall plug electric heater straight from China.
Piracy sites that can't get regular sponsors have more legitimate ads than Youtube :D
My favorite is THE MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT IN THE WORLD that comes with a warning because it can start fires, but it's actually a normal LED light you can buy anywhere.
Cheap, Chinese, and starts fires. What's not to love?
Is that the one with the image of light sabre, cos that's funny as hell
Yes that's the one and if you google it you find other websites with people complaining how it's a ripoff.
Star wars has been around for the better part of 50 years, how the hell do people not recognise a lightsabre
We’re at a very dangerous time of the internet. Normies have taken over and don’t understand why we made rules of the internet. Why the internet before they’ve taken over existed. I predict it will get worse than what YouTube is doing and it won’t get any better.
I think they're panicked about AI. They're trying to squeeze all the juice out while they still can.
Hosting 10 hour videos of an AI reading reddit comments to AI bots clicking past captchas is a losing game and right now that's what their future is.
Pretty much all of Google's $300 billion in revenue comes from exploiting user-generated content and it costs them around $225 billion to get that. If AI even halves the value or doubles the cost then Google's in the hole by tens of billions with no way out.
What they should be doing is intentionally trying to run off all the low-quality, unpopular content. A video with 100 views should take a dozen seconds to start playing and buffer in the middle, while the big money-making channel plays and skips around instantly. Bogus copyright claims, upload errors. It seems like this is what they're doing.
The other ways, and more likely way to deal with it with the new online safety laws, are to either disable the upload button and have the website curated or make non-monetised videos be hosted on someone's Google One storage.
That's a good point, but they would have to admit they're limited.
If they just run people off and make videos impossible to search even with the exact title they avoid the news pieces about how their growth is over. I think a lot of their success rests on the perception of growing every year forever, probably way more than being perceived as competent.
Considering "curated" ads by actual people are still shilling Betterhelp I don't think its much better either way.
Google needs to be broken up for abusing their monopoly
No, they need to be broken up for pushing the gay commie agenda that is subverting the nation.
Not only that, there's a rumour one of the executives has been to Jeffrey Epstein's island and they are kinda slow to remove perverted materials. They also have been guilty of spying people, so they are guilty of several things, they should have the section 230 taken away long ass time ago but once again it's the connection with government letting them get away scotfree for now.
Good excuse to start using non-youtube video services as much as possible.
I don't understand why they were allowed to buy DoubleClick back in the day. DoubleClick was already doing its best monopoly impression before Google took over. It was a case where it should have been obvious to regulators what the merger would do to the market.
Damn, hopefully the devs of the most popular web browser will add in some protections to prevent sites from doing that.
Oh wait...
Really makes you think, right? But people will claim Google isn't a monopoly...
Computers and tech seriously needs to be brought back right under the users control so nonsense like this can be identified and shutdown.
Link to odysee for people avoiding youtube. https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/ad-blockers-beware-youtube's-latest-move:3
+1 between Odysee and Rumble I can usually waste plenty of time and just avoid YouTube altogether.
The problem is that youtube still has all the institutional inertia. Content lives on Youtube and it isn't going anywhere until forced, at which point we're looking at a digital burning of the library of Alexandria. Lots of historical content will be lost.
That's a big problem and why YouTube can act in such a monopolistic way. Because they know the content they currently have is with them and the majority of creators do not want to diversify or move to another platform such as Rumble or Odysee. However things are changing as people move toward subscription based long form content via the streaming platforms and short form content via TikTok.
YouTube is slowly being squeezed in the middle and becoming more niche. Niche don't make money and unlike the big streaming giants who can make content with hundreds of people so if one burns out, they can be replaced and the non-committal short form content is cheap and easy to make. I've noticed a big uptick recently in content creators burning out or retiring because you don't have the sub money to sustain the production values needed for the high quality monetised content like the big streaming giants can, the ad revenue is spread far too thinly to be sustainable at a time where ad revenue is declining or the platform for the popular short form content that's now been taken by TikTok and Shorts hasn't captured that market.
YouTube is acting like a monopoly in a market it no longer dominates.
You're delusional if you think youtube doesn't dominate this market. Time to take a break from the culture war echo chamber my friend.
Yes but it won't be from people like us going to their competitors and putting them out of business, it'll be Google culling 90% of it themselves to protect the bottom line, and it won't be the "correct" portion of digital culture that gets culled. They'll use AI to cull "problematic" video content first.
It's like these companies are in a race to the bottom. Twitch just keeps doubling and tripling down on obnoxious ads too, and trying to make it harder and harder to block.
The last time I opened twitch was maybe six months ago. I clicked on a stream and was greeted with a 1.5 minute ad even though I had ublock installed. I noped out and haven't been back since.
I might have dealt with a 30 second ad, but 90 seconds?? Not a chance.
A few times Youtube's add was an extremely long documentary on some shithole black country begging for money so corrupt fucks and charity employee can drain most of the cash, and the rest spent on food dumps so blacks can keep making 6+ babies per woman.
I got served a two hour advertisement once. They have stopped that practice but in turn now serve up to two minutes of ads every five minutes and in particular, within the first two minutes of starting a video.
They're not just becoming cable TV, they're becoming WORSE than cable TV! And the sugar on top will be when, not if, they show advertising to Premium subscribers.
So...who's clicking the ads? Does their entire revenue model now run on grandmas tapping the wrong part of the screen while trying to skip?
I cancelled it because the recommendations is full of trannies.
And whores.
To be fair, that describes pretty much every website that doesn't explicitly promise the opposite...and some of those latter ones too. But yeah, Twitch is cancer, no argument from me.
If they're willfully fucking up people's computers by spiking their CPU usage and burning unnecessary watts that's probably illegal.
Shame they have control of the DNC and the Republicans are just a litter of sad yippy purse dogs that are all bark and no bite.
We need a real opposition party.
Appaling how even mediocre quality video now sucks more bandwith than it did 10+ years ago. Like technology became alot less efficient with time.
Same for pictures. Poor quality yet 3mb. Quality you expected from a 0.5mb picture from 20 years ago.
Anyone with actual knowledge of compression has been forced out by DIE. Who's left? Brute force pajeets shouting "do the needful" at each other.
Funny, when I don't have adblocks on, Youtube buffers a little bit, then when it hits an ad point, throws all the buffering away for some reason, it doesn't "hold" the buffer through the ad split. So it has serious throttled and bottlenecked buffering when ads are on for me, not off.
Once again, piracy is a service problem.
YouTube is way too big for what it does. So many big names are calling it quits right now. The ads have gone from five seconds to unstoppable minute long videos. I'm guessing the DEI money isn't working out, and they're too famous to do money laundering anymore.
No, the money laundering is still going strong. I’ve seen the streams myself. Looped video with an endless stream of bots super chatting small amounts.
Piped, freetube, new pipe or individuous ftw. Youtube-dl or just paste the URL into mpv also works pretty well. There's tons of ways to go past their BS. I am never turning off ad blocker ever again, I tried once and Internet was literally unusable.
Or yt-dlp these days.
It's the one I use, I just have an alias so I don't have to rethink that one every time I use it.
I'm using Skytube currently.
Interface could use some work (no playlists) but it lets you view/download without "recommendations".
looptube.io is my go-to at work where all the infrastructure is insufficient. Runs a lot smoother without choking on ads.
Nothing says "environmentalist" than forcing people to use more electricity because they don't want to watch propaganda that earns you blood money.
I noticed this too. Was wondering what the heck was causing it.
Google has the resources to test their changes. Even if it's a 'mistake', it was deliberately allowed to happen.
Hilarious, I haven't even noticed. I stream video and play high graphic games at once. It must be all my blockers running and opera gx that's keeping yt suppressed
Opera GX is run by faggots.
I've more or less stopped using youtube.
And not even due to the throttling, or war on adblock, but rather getting forcefed brainrot content via the recommendations. If I wanted to rot my brain I'd turn on cable TV.
Praise be Her name, Saint Nassim
so that's what that is
It flat-out refuses service to data-service phones, now.
Stop using Joogle products.
My ten year okd Ryzen hasn't noticed, sonI must be doing something right.