Video playback resumes to normal when ad blockers are disabled
    • limerod@reddthat.com
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      2 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.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 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.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 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.com
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          2 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.

    • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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      2 months ago

      I mean, the earlier attempts google/youtube made to block adblockers by putting up a notice to turn it off, etc., were openly stated as being tested only on some users. As expected, only some users experienced that. You're just part of the more fortunate majority that isn't an unwilling guinea pig for google's attempts to force everyone to watch ads or pay premium.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      There was a few weeks earlier this year I was getting ads on YouTube even with UBO. But it seems UBO has returned to its rightful place as winners of that arms race again.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      While I wouldn't put it past Google/YouTube to do something as shitty as this, I think people are far too quick to assume foul play over the much more likely possibility that the world's largest video platform occasionally shits itself.

  • NuraShiny [any]
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    2 months ago

    Is this country specific? The EU has existing law in many countries that allows users to filter out ads.

  • Tregetour@lemdro.id
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    2 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...