TIL why YouTube buffers when my network is fine. Set network to prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6
TIL why YouTube buffers when my network is fine. Set network to prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6
Provides step-by-step guidance for how to use the Windows registry to disable IPv6 or certain IPv6 components in Windows.
I have 2ms ping to YouTube and my network is wired 1gbit so it was odd to get so many buffering issues. So i did a search and this solution immediately solved the buffering issue! Prefer IPv4 or disable IPv6 and it's buttery smooth
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Youtube recently implemented malicious design to make it lag when you don't have premium and/or an Ad blocker
I thought this was only an issue with Adblock or Adblock Plus
Edit: Switched to Nitter
Just an fyi, any still functioning nitter instance won't work much longer. Even the one you posted is already rate limited.
Oh, I didn't know. Is there a working alternative?
Not sure. Just going off the announcement yesterday saying the method nitter used to show Twitter posts has been shut down by the site.
I assume any existing alternative was using similar workaround, so I'd guess any new alternative would have to find another, undiscovered method, which doesn't seem likely.
Aww rats! Well, screenshots it is!
You’re 100% correct but people keep spreading this nonsense…
What did Mark Twain say? "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes" -- or something like that (would be ironic if he didn't even say that haha).
Also, this experience has made me realize that there are still a lot of people with Lemmy accounts using Adblock+ or even Adblock! I wouldn't have expected it.
I have Premium and have been experiencing numerous buffering issues lately. Fingers crossed that this fix works.
Do you still have an ad blocker on? It wouldn't surprise me that even with a premium they still messed up.
I'm asking because even when you authorize ads on YouTube by deactivating or even uninstalling your adblocker it still blocks videos, so I'm not convinced that premium removes all their malicious move tbh.