Youtube slowing down due to addblock
Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled
Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?
Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.
Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.
Idk, I don't use ublock but ever since this last wave of allegations of throttling adblock users I've been getting videos just refusing to load any of the beginning of the vid after the first couple seconds. It'll play the last 3/4ths though.
I don't remember the exact name of my adblock but it's not ublock origin
firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.
Or Newpipe
or Revanced
or Freetube.
YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
Agreed, Invidious is so much lighter than YouTube that I've had sucess watching on onion instances via Tor.
Invidious has a bug where it doesn't update as frequently as it's supposed to. I've had this issue on both my self hosted and public instances. I'm thinking about switching to freetube. Always hear about it but never tried it
Even if they throttled my speed so that I'm wasting the same amount of time waiting for the site to load as i would be by watching an ad, I still win because I didn't have to watch an ad.
Isn't it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I'm just not interested)
The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.
Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.
And on top of that there's only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline
You're going to get suicide booth ads if you don't watch out.
I set my user agent to a google bot. Everything works other than steam chat.
The word is "advertisement" which has only one "d", so the shortened form of it is "ad' or "ads".
But it is "added" to the video! /s
Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.
Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.
If I spend half an hour to find an implement a workaround (because finding ways around YT's advertising is not my hobby) then I'd have to watch 60 unskippable 30 second ads to break even, every single time they upgrade their cat-and-mouse. I don't watch that much youtube in a month, probably not in 3 months.
I've always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.
NewPipe x SponsorBlock
Or Revanced - Sponsorblock is one of the packages you can patch into it.
youtube-dlp is your friend then - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Also mpv, it can use yt-dlp as a backend to play videos from urls: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
If you're experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription
Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.
I'm quite satisfied with GrayJay app.
I'm glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.
I <3 invidious. Was traveling recently and didn't have access to my home invidious instance and WOW, yt sucks without it.
I use tailscale. Too easy to setup
I use Twingate to access my home network externally. NetworkChuck has a good video on how it works and how to set up.
User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me
What do you switch to?
I changed mine to macos safari. Latest version of both. No delay.
Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos
I stopped watching videos on YouTube and instead started to use mpv since it allows me to watch the video at a higher resolution without burning my PC
use NewPipe if you're on Android
I have firefox and ublock and they're not always working, so I just open the video url in any video player that supports it. In potplayer I just copy the video url and use ctrl+v in the main video window and it opens with no issues.
ff2mpv adds a button in the addon bar and in the context menu to open a video in mpv. It's awesome and removes the manual copy and pasting of the url.
ttps://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv
Yes, use Newpipe
I use Baking Soda and Vinegar to convert all videos in Safari (macOS and iOS) to the native video player. Automatically selects the highest quality video available and skips ads.
https://farside.link/youtube.com
search github "invidious"
Unpopular opinion but.......who fucking cares? Youtube with ublock origin takes like 3 extra fucking seconds to load. 3 second delay is still worlds better than a 30+ second unskippable add. It's not a big deal..
Oh look, ANOTHER thread filled with users shocked that Google doesn't give a damn about ad blocking customers.
Dude, no one here is shocked or angry. There are just normal people calmly discussing ways to bypass yet another attempt from Google to stop AdBlockers. If anything, you're the guy who spent the entire day yesterday screeching at people in another thread who don't want to pay for YT Premium, and is still doing the same thing now, in a community dedicated to piracy no less. You just deleted the vast majority of your comments because you were too embarrassed when people called you out for licking the boots of a trillion-dollars corporation and being angry at other people who don't want to follow your example.
Go touch some grass, it's free (just like YouTube!).
