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?
Yeah hard times for privacy focused youtube alternatives… I don’t have any issues at the moment with LibreTube on android. But it’s bases on the Piped api.
But a few months back there were less working servers. Maybe because of youtube’s new policy? Have to investigate invidious and piped github’s issue page
I’ve found small invidious instances seem to work better. There’s also Piped
damn, even with seeing the bot around here i forgot to try Piped these days
anyway, i’ve found a solution - i had “proxy videos through Invidious” turned on on Freetube (which was redundant since i’m behind a VPN). i’ve unchecked it and things seem fime now
still, thank you
FreeTube with local API works good. Same with NewPipe
yeah on Newpipe videos load fine. thanks to your comment I noticed Freetube is giving me an error with local API, so that’s why
I’ve just finished 50 minute podcast via piped, worked just fine, recommend you to use some obscure instance and it works great.
thanks everyone for the feedback. while unaware, I was still using Invidious in Freetube through the setting “Proxy videos through Invidious”. it’s turned off now and working fine
how can i find such “obscure” instances, tho? i’ve always picked one from the Invidious’ website public list and, upon testing, all of them seem slow right now
also, I had forgotten to try Piped, which is working fine
on a side note, I’d never understood why Piped was made, given that Invidious exists, but here it is, in case anyone wants to know
No issues with Freetube here either, never had any either. Running most things on defaults.
Freetube works fine if you use the local API, but most Invidious instances don’t work at the moment
Well, I’ve been having slow issues on Youtube (I use adblocker) and Invidious. I think the fight against adblockers is related. After all, invidious is also a way to access content without those annoying ads.
