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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Yep. Personally use Piped, but it's the same idea. It basically saves me hours of watching useless videos everyday.

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Now if only Piped wouldn't error out and be unusable for 10 minutes at a time every couple hours...

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It doesn't for me, though.

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I have been trying to figure out why since I started using it... searches spin forever, videos spin forever, some videos just spit "Error 1003" immediately, and then they become accessible 10 minutes later. I even tried filing an issue to no avail. I may end up looking for other alternatives.

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Have you tried changing the instances? Some instances simply perform better than others.

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I have, but the ones I tried weren't much better. I looked again and there's a few new ones, so I'll try those and update if they work faster/more consistently.

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