Youtube / Brave Consuming exceptional amount of RAM

[IceCubeMV]

Recently I am facing lack of RAM in my computer on inspection i found out that its brave and especially the youtube tab that just eats ram for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

is there a way to solve this ?

[anon11595408]

Sure.

Piped

Invidious

[Kresimir]

Even better:

YouTube orders ‘Invidious’ to shut down in 7 days

I don’t use this anymore, got sick of streaming and buffering. I use this now: #!/bin/bash # Directory for downloaded videos: DL_DIR="$HOME/Videos/temp" # Video player: PLAYER="xdg-open" #PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv" #PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer" # Downloader and options: YTDL="$HOME/bin/yt-dlp" YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist --throttled-rate=100000 -N 10) YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR") set -e CMD() { printf "[CMD]: " printf "\"%s\" " "$@" printf "\n" "$@" } # Get URL from clipboard if run withou…

[pebcak]

For the sake of testing, I bite the bullet ( ) and visited YT.
I am not seeing at all the kind of memory usage your seeing.
Here are a before and an after screenshots:

[IceCubeMV]

Update: I get this is not just bound to youtube or brave, Random service appear to have memory leaks → filling the RAM.

I was not facing the issue a couple weeks before.
I have only removed packages like → latte-dock, blueman etc. Nothing related to system etc. I also installed asusctl for power management thats it.