How’s it with you guys ?

  • ares35@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    watched a free movie on yt for the first time in a couple months last thursday. i knew about the new war on adblockers, so i had updated ublock origin’s filter list cache first.

    worked fine no ads, even got 1080p, which i rarely ever see for the ‘legit’ mainstream tv shows and movies they have.

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      1 year ago

      even got 1080p

      What’s up with that by the way? I constantly watch videos in 720p that advertise 4K in the title.

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        1 year ago

        Can you choose 4K from the little gear icon in the bottom right corner of the player?

        Not trying to defend YouTube, but I think they align video quality to network speed so you can watch without buffering.

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            1 year ago

            the big content providers and studios often don’t allow a higher bitrate or resolution in a third-party (to the os its on) browser… i hardly ever see 1080p available on that free stuff on yt.

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              1 year ago

              I don’t think that applies to content that doesn’t have DRM, and except music videos generally none has.

              I don’t know about the youtube interface because I haven’t used in it a long time, but there’s no problem with it through piped and invidious.