It happens on both mobile data and wifi. VPN doesn’t help either. As far as I know, my provider doesn’t block any sites and even if they did, shouldn’t VPN fix that?

Really? Why does the connection time out for me then?

Those website are more of a risk than torrents

It’s been down for weeks now tho

I’m getting 460-510mbps on 5Ghz 500mbps connection. Tested on modernish laptop and phone.

I just have a single router and haven’t done any optimizing

Yeah Firefox + Ublock Origin. It buffers for me indefinitely and the only way to fix it is to skip ahead 10 or so seconds. If I then go back 10 seconds it starts buffering again.

Is this why I’ve been getting constant buffering at the start of videos?

First site is dead or link is broken

What is novel data?

I’ve been using Bandcamp to buy albums. They are claiming that 82% of the money goes to the artist.