Stop using Chrome already.

The performance issues are because of Adblock and Adblock Plus: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919#m

It affects more sites than just YouTube.

That's straight the opposite of my experience. 🤭

For those that are not aware, set your VPN to Albania and you will never see a YouTube ad again.

My biggest issue is circumventing ads on smart TV apps, 99% of my YT viewing is on a TV.

Again? Hasn't changed for me since they started doing that in November. YouTube is quite annoying to use for me these days, the site takes forever to load and only starts loading when I switch to the tab. Best thing to do is adding everything to a queue, videos load normally then for some reason. As a result I'm using YouTube less though, so not necessarily a bad thing.

Firefox + uBlock Origin + User Agent Switcher (set to Chrome). I did get the pop-up once saying they would cut me off. I cleared cache and browsing data and haven't seen the warning since. 🤞

Still works fine with uBlock origin.

The only issue I have with YouTube is that while using an Ad blocker it doesn't track videos I have already seen in my subscriptions.

So it will tell me that I didn't watch a video I just watched.

A small price to pay for an ad free experience but a bit annoying still.