Chinese researchers achieved a new milestone in fiber-optic technology, achieving ultra-fast data transmission over long distances without signal repeaters.
I’ve stopped caring what the capacity is. Youtube doesn’t require a fraction of what we have already in place.
However, they’ve put so many ads that an adblock is required.
But, if you have adblock you need to click the video you need to watch, let it not load, refresh the screen, wait way longer than should be needed, and then watch the video while getting a nagging popup that says “Experiencing interuptions?”
Followed by watching the video rendering NOT rendering at various points, and you need to pause and let it buffer.
All because google thinks they are entitled to push malicious ads onto my device, and punishing me for blocking them.
The speed we have is more than enough for the internet we have. The bottleneck is the companies enshittifying their own service.
Faster speeds mean nothing when you artificially throttle them.
Look, I’m no fan of ads, but… It’s a free service that costs an ungodly amount of money to run. They’ve gotta make money somehow.
Of course the whole running it at a loss for a decade thing means they had to go the enshittification route. Could’ve had more ads and a subscription option long ago but they wanted to lull us into a false sense of security first :/
I’ve stopped caring what the capacity is. Youtube doesn’t require a fraction of what we have already in place.
However, they’ve put so many ads that an adblock is required.
But, if you have adblock you need to click the video you need to watch, let it not load, refresh the screen, wait way longer than should be needed, and then watch the video while getting a nagging popup that says “Experiencing interuptions?”
Followed by watching the video rendering NOT rendering at various points, and you need to pause and let it buffer.
All because google thinks they are entitled to push malicious ads onto my device, and punishing me for blocking them.
The speed we have is more than enough for the internet we have. The bottleneck is the companies enshittifying their own service.
Faster speeds mean nothing when you artificially throttle them.
I can see you don’t regularly have to upload terabytes of data every day. A faster connection would literally change my work life.
Strange, YouTube works fine for me with adblocker.
FreeTube for your PC and PipePipe if you have an Android phone will solve all your problems
Or Invidious when you can’t/don’t want to install an additional app
Grayjay
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You could, you know, just not use YouTube. Like, no one is forcing you to.
Kinda forced when 99% of the world that uses internet is on that platform yk
I mean, it’s not though.
Look, I’m no fan of ads, but… It’s a free service that costs an ungodly amount of money to run. They’ve gotta make money somehow.
Of course the whole running it at a loss for a decade thing means they had to go the enshittification route. Could’ve had more ads and a subscription option long ago but they wanted to lull us into a false sense of security first :/