Ask HN: Is YouTube really slower in Russia? Who is behind it?

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by stracer • 2 years ago

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eimrine• 2 years ago

Ask Stracer: Is YouTube any slower in China? Who might be considered supporting the digital feudalism? Is abortions really illegal in US? Is YouTube perfectly legal among the jurisdictions? Who decides what and where is considered acceptable?

stracer2• 2 years ago

Not sure what your point is.

pythonic_one• 2 years ago

I have experienced video freeze at the first like 20 seconds which fixed after page reload, but many people say that it's impossible to use without VPN

stracer2• 2 years ago

Is this Russian authorities, or Google themselves, slowly leaving?

Yawrehto• 2 years ago

I'm gonna guess it's the authorities. It's usually them. Google is presumably making money off of it and has little incentive to do it, especially piecemeal, while Russia has a history of censoring and often throttling internet access.

Also, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is, I should note, funded by the US government, claims that's what's happening [https://www.rferl.org/a/youtube-russia-throttling-tech-censo...]. So it seems quite likely that it is, in fact, Russia's government behind this.

r721• 2 years ago

https://therecord.media/russia-slows-youtube-speeds-legislat...

protomolecule• 2 years ago

Russian living in Russia here.

Yes. The government.

Ask HN: Is YouTube really slower in Russia? Who is behind it?

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