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> YouTube mainly throttles TOR

What I mean is, streaming media usually uses UDP (I don't know about YouTube, but I'd guess that's the case) and according to this thread, Tor routes only TCP and not UDP. So is YouTube and other streaming media being routed around Tor?



> (I don't know about YouTube, but I'd guess that's the case)

YouTube delivers video in chunks over the standard HTTPS port 443, as does Twitch. YouTube supports HTTP/3, so it will use UDP via QUIC if your browser and network also support it, but otherwise it will simply go over TCP.


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