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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again (www.tomsguide.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/becomeme@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kill your own service. I really don't care

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    They have literally no competition so that doesn’t really work when no one has an alternative.

    I mean do we really think YouTube is worried about Vimeo or Peertube? I bet they don’t receive even .01% of the traffic and there is no way as much money is exchanging hands for creators/advertisers/etc. YT is basically its own self contained industry at this point only competing with twitch and video games writ large for eyeballs.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This seems to apply only to Adblock and not UBlock, (I have both installed on chrome) and it only gets laggy with Adblock enabled 👀

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    uBlock Origin dev recently said the issue is specifically Adblock Plus 3.22 and AdBlock 5.17

    https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746543686932947074

    Further down that thread he also calls this Tom's Hardware article a failure to properly investigate and inform people

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Why don’t they just come out and say it loads slower for anyone who isn’t a subscriber…

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I love when you use it with private browsing in Firefox.

    It loads all the way, starts to play, then reloads the whole thing again. Fuck alone knows why.

    Billions of dollars, and that's what you get.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    use an ad speedup extension to speed through the ad

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If you're just looking to use youtube without having to suffer through ads, try out the chrome extension called Clear Skies. I just started using it and found it to be super minimal on my computer's memory and makes youtube usable.

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