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?

  • 7heo
    19·
    10 months ago

    I suspect one of the ways that Google detects the invidious instances is with the instance’s behavior: if a lot of different clients use a given instance, it makes it stand out.

    Therefore using your own instance is a good way to get around that problem. I think I’ll try that as well.

    • Shepy@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Seriously worth a go, takes minutes to setup if you’re already ready for docker containers. Restart it often (dailiy is the official guidance, i find it doesnt need that with only me as user, i just do it when it starts to feel sluggish) - and I’ve put it behind a reverse proxy with auth to keep it to myself

      • 7heo
        16·
        10 months ago

        I mean, in 2024 half of the IT landscape takes minutes to deploy if you can run docker containers… 😅

        "It works on my machine!" - "then we'll ship your machine" meme