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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Piped is so slow for me, I'm not sure if it's a me issue or a host issue. I finally spun up viewtube to test it out since running my own piped instance seemed cumbersome.
Same here. I tried loading the same 13-second video on Piped and YouTube. YouTube played it instantly. Piped took several seconds (probably longer than the video lasted) to start playing.
To be fair, Piped serves as a proxy, you're not getting the content served directly from YouTubes' servers