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0 pointsphplovesong5mo ago0 comments

Youtube is pretty unusable, as they throttle videos, and links sometimes dont work. It has gone downhill fast in recent years.

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ConceptJunkie5mo ago

I have no problems with YouTube at all. Perhaps it's because I pay for Premium (primarily to get YouTube music).

Regardless, Google services getting worse over time is becoming a law rather than a tendency.

cons0le5mo ago

I don't get the value ad of youtube music. Everything's already on youtube and they let you make playlists, and they have playlists of the top charts already.

What else does youtube music get you? I can play on my phone with the screen off with yt vanced ( and I would never pay just for that feature, because I remember when it was free and they took it away )

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anonym295mo ago

Quick, everyone start sending unwanted junk mail to this guy's house, he'll pay you to stop!

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supportengineer5mo ago

No one ever got a promotion for maintaining software

kiwijamo5mo ago

They limit the buffer to around 30secs or so like all other streaming services but otherwise 95%+ of the time it just plays smoothing with no buffering at all from start to end. YouTube is generally in the top 3 of the video streaming services I use. Even on 4G wireless (which I occassionally use) it works well enough which is impressive as other video steaming services struggle (with the sole exception of Netflix which is probably the only one better than YouTube).

ranger_danger5mo ago

No issues here for me with uBO, logged in or not, no premium

shermantanktop5mo ago

No idea what you are talking about. I don’t have premium and use in both logged in and logged out.

nancyminusone5mo ago

If I'm logged out, I get "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" about once a week from both home and the office.

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