• gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Is this the Russian Government censoring them, or is YouTube just pulling out because the sanctions mean they can’t run ads to Russian IPs?

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      3 months ago

      the biggest ISP in Russia, rostelecom, started throttling youtube by 80% last month and is planning a full blocking. It’s a curious choice though… even the hardest most Z people are not happy about it.

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      3 months ago

      The government claims it’s Google’s hardware getting outdated. Google says that’s bs.

      I think that it’s convenient how they’re telling that to us right before throttling YouTube only with certain providers (and seems to be with only certain regions as well).

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        3 months ago

        YouTube was running like garbage for me in Texas earlier today while everything else was fine. Are they having issues in general?