2021-10-09, 11:27
Hey,
please allow me to add my 2 cents. I love the YT addon and use it extensively every day, so I guess I'm just as sad /pissed. I'm using 19.1.0 and upgraded to 6.8.18~alpha1+matrix.1 today. Using my own API keys which are linked to my personal google account, which I also use with YT in the browser.
The issues were getting worse on my side until about 2 days ago, when I switched to a paid YT account. Normally 3 or 4 restarts of the same video would do, but at that time even 10 restarts would not do it and skipping between streams would not help either. OTOH any video runs wihout issue in the browser. My impression is that my ISP and google infrastructure are not the problem. Hence my motivation.
My API keys were then associated with a "ad-free" YT account, and at first nothing changed. One day later though things were about back to normal. At least that is my impression. Only 2 out of perhaps 10 streams I watched today experienced outages. After switching to 6.8.18 alpha 1 even the ones with outages played normally.
I really cant be sure about a connection between thottling and a paid account. All I can say is that my subjective experience is very different since I changed that.
I will stay with 6.8.18 alpha, keep observing for the rest of the trial period and then revert to free, lets see what happens.
please allow me to add my 2 cents. I love the YT addon and use it extensively every day, so I guess I'm just as sad /pissed. I'm using 19.1.0 and upgraded to 6.8.18~alpha1+matrix.1 today. Using my own API keys which are linked to my personal google account, which I also use with YT in the browser.
The issues were getting worse on my side until about 2 days ago, when I switched to a paid YT account. Normally 3 or 4 restarts of the same video would do, but at that time even 10 restarts would not do it and skipping between streams would not help either. OTOH any video runs wihout issue in the browser. My impression is that my ISP and google infrastructure are not the problem. Hence my motivation.
My API keys were then associated with a "ad-free" YT account, and at first nothing changed. One day later though things were about back to normal. At least that is my impression. Only 2 out of perhaps 10 streams I watched today experienced outages. After switching to 6.8.18 alpha 1 even the ones with outages played normally.
I really cant be sure about a connection between thottling and a paid account. All I can say is that my subjective experience is very different since I changed that.
I will stay with 6.8.18 alpha, keep observing for the rest of the trial period and then revert to free, lets see what happens.