Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

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.

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

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".

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.

I've always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.

youtube-dlp is your friend then - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

NewPipe x SponsorBlock

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.

Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos

User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me

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

https://revanced.app/

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.