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?

  • ShepyEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    I got sick of some of the various Invidious instances taking 5+ refreshes to load a video, so ended up installing my own instance and its been a much nicer experience

    • 7heo@lemmy.ml
      19·
      11 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.

      • ShepyEnglish
        6·
        11 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@lemmy.ml
          16·
          11 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