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First thing that comes to mind is user agent spoofer. Anyway I say let them, it's their company with userbase content and it's based in US. They can do whatever they want with it because terms of service. I can just look at my sexy John Oliver poster on the wall for 30 min and replace their service.
Yeah cheers. I've been using Invidious and NewPipe for a while now..:-)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Piped is not blocked on my school/work wifi and looks better than invidious.
LibRedirect is Awesome!
Do these pass through the user agent to YouTube? Otherwise they'll have the same issue with Firefox being underrepresented.
I was replying to this part of the comment:
If the alternatives don't use a Firefox user-agent, it'll also have the same effect in reducing the amount of Firefox traffic in their logs.
I edited my comment a bit to clarify :)
Wow! I thought it was a bug, but that code does it intentionally. Amazing.
It's actually how the discovered this, user agent was changed to chrome and it was no longer slowed down