Video playback resumes to normal when ad blockers are disabled
  • Todgerdickinson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The cat takes 4 months to cook their dinner. The mouse eats it in 5 mins.

    Happily using UBOrigin on web and uYouplus on iOS.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m yet to see literally any of these things while using UBO, I almost feel like I’m being gaslighted at times.

    • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber and use adguard. But, I have been experiencing the YouTube app being slow in loading comments for some reason.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        To be honest Youtube has always been slow to me, especially their streams. God, their streams are an absolutely resource hog, I’ve never seen a chat use up so much CPU power.

        • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
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          5 months ago

          The last two times there were also errors like not being able to upvote anything. Later, I found it was a global youtube issue. YouTube needs to improve to be able to serve people at its scale.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I think youtube has just started needing way more bandwidth than it used to. A few years ago, 100KB/s would load a videos page almost instantly, comments as well, and smoothly run 360p playback. Now even at 160KB/s I often spend 60+ seconds for parts of the page to even load.

        • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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          5 months ago

          That’s thanks to their shitty javascript. Gosh, I hate sites doing that so much

          Just let me use my browser the way it’s intended to instoad of loading every shitty little html element dynamically with your shitty js doing shitty network requests dropping them like crazy

  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I had completely forgotten about their war on adblockers. Haven’t had to play with uBlock for months.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Did you have to mess around with it at some point?

      I’ve been Firefox with uBlock Origin for a couple years and haven’t ever messed around with the settings other than turning it off for a few select websites. Haven’t had any of the issues other people reported with youtube.

      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        At the very beginning of their crackdown I remember I had to update shit a few times to get rid of that ‘no adblocker’ screen but yeah…its been months now and youtube is perfectly normal.

  • Tregetour@lemdro.idEnglish
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    5 months ago

    How many Youtube employees would be assigned to frontend/adblock sabotage efforts? I’m wondering whether the law of diminishing returns will be observed, or will the company have sufficient resources to maintain the shenanigans indefinitely.

    If it’s the latter, Youtube can rest assured my resolve will match theirs, until the damned thing gets paywalled…