That's been a common issue with most invidious mirrors. It's caused, AFAIK, by google attempting to limit bandwidth to mirrors as part of their attempts to combat adblockers. I may be wrong on that though. When it loads slowly for me, whenever I check the main list of mirrors at invidious's website, it'll say bandwidth is limited upstream.
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Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
One of my favourite YouTubers! Glad to see that he's now also on !nebula@lemmy.world
qaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Is anyone else having trouble with the vid.puffyan.us YouTube mirror? It takes about 20 seconds to view the front page / load the thumbnail initially.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2y
That's been a common issue with most invidious mirrors. It's caused, AFAIK, by google attempting to limit bandwidth to mirrors as part of their attempts to combat adblockers. I may be wrong on that though. When it loads slowly for me, whenever I check the main list of mirrors at invidious's website, it'll say bandwidth is limited upstream.
qaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I tried other top mirrors, and they all loaded almost instantly. I think something else is wrong.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
Ah, in this case definitely could be.
Wanderer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
I found downloading videos is the best way around watching adds.
Mirror seem to be hit or miss. But downloading off a "download youtube videos" website never fails.
Or use brave. It's a great browser.
qaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Firefox + uBlock Origin also works
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2y
Personally I just use Ublock origin on Firefox combined with SponsorBlock, which has worked flawlessly for me.