Stop using Chrome already.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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The performance issues are because of Adblock and Adblock Plus: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919#m
It affects more sites than just YouTube.
People still use AdBlock Plus? I thought that was long since dead. You know, since they sold out and let companies pay them to show ads.
not everyone keeps track of browser addon news, so... yeah? it's been a most recommended and recognizable ad blocker for a long time, so lots of people are probably still unaware of the changes after all those years and stick with it.
That piece of news is like a decade old. There are people on the net now that weren’t even born when AdBlock Plus turned to shit.
again, you overestimate how much people are invested in addon news.
That's straight the opposite of my experience. 🤭
Changes like these are mostly A/B deployed, so it might eventually find itself to you.
...But I'm sure uBlock Origin will have put in a fix by that point.
For those that are not aware, set your VPN to Albania and you will never see a YouTube ad again.
Why is this?
presumably, it would be because ads are area dependent, and companies in Albania are not spending much on youtube ads.a
If you managed to get a VPN server on antarctica, you would likely see the same.
Yep.. only downside is all your search results are going to be in Albanian.
You can change region in duckduckgo manually, probably in goggle as well.
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.
I’m not sure the YouTube heads really thought this through. I’m doing the exact same thing. I got a Plex setup and I’ve been watching more and more content on that instead of YouTube. I honestly don’t even miss it. When I eventually go back and try to watch something on a non-ad block device (Apple TV), it further underscores how shitty the service is getting. Longer and longer ads and it seems like they are slowly getting louder than the content.
My biggest issue is circumventing ads on smart TV apps, 99% of my YT viewing is on a TV.
Cheap android tv box (onn) install smart tube.
I don't live in the US so I don't have as easy access to random Android boxes like the ones on Amazon, but yeah I'll probably get one eventually. I have a Chromecast 4K, but I haven't really explored all the available apps yet. I'd love to be able to sideload apps, if I could get Grayjay on there that'd be awesome.
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. 🤞
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.
If your history isn't working, it's probably because you're blocking s.youtube.com. If you whitelist that, history should work again.
Don't worry, my youtube does manage to track my watch history, and yet it will still recommend me a video I've just seen anyway!
Works fine for me with Ublock Origin.
Interesting. I got to have a peculiar list activated in Ublock that breaks tracking of watched videos.
Thanks for the feedback.
Still works fine with uBlock origin.
It’s baffling to me, how many people complain about YouTube- and continue to use YouTube. At this rate, they could murder your families and you’d still give them business.
JUST STOP USING YOUTUBE.
"Just stop buying food from the only place that sells food you like."
YouTube isn’t life sustaining. Maybe start with getting that understood.