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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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 Lots of historical content will be lost.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.