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?
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Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin
I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case
So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn't have the problems they're having
I feel the same.
Working at a college its always shocking finding out a lot of the youth don't know ad blocking at least. Volunteering after my shift to help with tutoring or other help they will try to show me a youtube video even on their personal laptop. Every start of a semester its something that leaves me shaking my head.
I don't really like the term "echo chamber," but that sort of thing makes me realize I'm really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don't know the first thing about such things.
I remember one time this kid asked me, "What's Chromium? I have this app called 'Chromium' but I don't know what it's for," so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it's an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled "Chromium."
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
What exactly doesn't work?
Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.
Hmmm, I'm not seeing these problems at all. It's probably worth reporting
I'm sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.
Make sure you're not using other ad blockers/privacy tools in addition to 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.
That's a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn't on google but the extensions themselves.
Source?
I have post history of going through their JS, this is a Google-sucks thing, full stop.
uBO Dev already shared it in the twitter thread but here you go
https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1725604837
and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?
Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)
FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.
I haven't seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it's no different than hitting youtube directly.
¯(ツ)/¯
"Checked to see if there was any delay" is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.
That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.
OK. I'm not claiming google isn't trying. I'm claiming it doesn't matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.
I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.
Same here. uBO + Firefox
If there's been a delay, it's not been noticeable to me
But brave is based con Chrome.V8
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
