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Invidious dragging to a halt (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by ruplicant@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Shepy 2 points 10 months ago

Yup, pretty much :P

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