How to watch YouTube Videos without Buffering | Load videos faster with YouTube Feather

▶ How to watch YouTube Videos without Buffering | Load videos faster with YouTube Feather

▶ Even seconds of loading time feel like ages ?

▶ YouTube Feather is here for your help. It makes use of advanced web techniques to serve YouTube video pages to the users in a fastest possible way.

▶ Visit  YouTube Feather Beta page here and click on the link that says Join the “Feather” Beta to switch to YouTube feather.

Does your YouTube video buffer and pause multiple times while playing ? Frustrated watching those stuttering videos ? Even seconds of loading time feel like ages ? Then you have landed in the right place. This article is just for you.

YouTube – being a part of Internet giant Google, has always looked out for ways to improve its services. With a staggering growth of users over years, Google wants to ensure that videos load and playback quickly. This is the reason why YouTube has introduced a brand new feature called YouTube Feather (currently an opt-in beta)

Not everyone has a fast internet connection and Youtube is not optimized for low-bandwidth Internet. New features like 1080p videos have slowed down loading times significantly. So, this optimization is clearly an attempt from YouTube to cater for the millions of users on capped or limited internet speed connections.

YouTube Feather : makes use of advanced web techniques to serve YouTube video pages to the users in a fastest possible way. It limits various features and the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser making videos stream swiftly then ever before.

The difference..
You can easily notice the difference between the regular YouTube videos and YouTube Feather. Not only in terms of faster streaming without buffering but also in terms of the amount of data downloaded by the browser. For instance, the browser downloaded 52 Kilobytes of data for the video in YouTube Feather when compared to 391 Kilobytes that the standard YouTube pages required.

Feather turns off most of the AJAX features on YouTube. Because of this, you can’t comment on videos (the number of loaded comments are just 10). It takes out a lot of the navigation and you have just three key actions available : to favorite a video, to flag a video and to subscribe to a channel. You can’t even rate videos, however, related videos remain limited to 5 videos compared to YouTube’s usual offering of 21.

But if you’re just interested in watching the video, none of that is going to matter to you, and you may very well not notice the difference anyway.

How to switch to YouTube Feather ?

Switching to YouTube Feather is simple and takes just a few clicks.

1>> Visit  YouTube Feather Beta page here.

2>> Click on the link that says Join the “Feather” Beta and you are done.

How to switch back to standard YouTube ?

If you were not really impressed with YouTube Feather and would like to switch back to the regular YouTube, then all you need to do is just click on Just this once - for watching that particular video in regular mode or Permanently – to switch back to the regular mode for all time as shown in the below snapshot.

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For now, Feather works on a selected number of YouTube videos, though Google will likely expand this service over time.

On a fast broadband connection, the difference between loading speeds is barely noticeable. Users with slow Internet connections, however, will surely benefit from this experiment.

FAQs

Does YouTube Feather  lower the video quality?

Well they don’t directly say it, but they do say that Feather does reduce latency by reducing the features available and overall byte size downloaded. So I would go on the assumption that yes, the video quality may suffer slightly and you may not find top HD quality content on Feather.

What this means to the Content Creators ?
If you are a content creator and depend on the revenue from YouTube, then you need not panic and continue to produce videos. For any video that is being monetized by a content creator, the YouTube Feather will have no effect. It continues to show ads as the same way it did on the regular pages.