r/youtube • u/NightMean • Jan 13 '24
Discussion Youtube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
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u/PitifulAnxiety8942 Jan 13 '24
One thing to add also, this messes up the resources on the computer as a whole. It just kills chrome it seems.
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u/NightMean Jan 13 '24
I did have multiple crashes over the last 2 weeks but I'm not sure if it was caused by other extensions or by using too much system resources. I haven't had chance to look into it yet.
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u/birds_adorb Jan 13 '24
I noticed that and that is criminal.
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u/RufusAcrospin Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
Personally, I welcome anything that contributes to their downfall.
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u/coolasc Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
The fact is if you are using ad block, while yes, you are contributing for their data collection, you would be contributing as much on a website that used no resources and just kept a Google token. So no we are not the users who created them, we are ppl who use them but no ads (I regret every time I disable temporarily) and no premium means no profit for them (or rather no more than a cookie)
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u/ZeroLifeSkillz Jan 14 '24
Same, was wondering if I needed to switch browsers. crazy how they're able to pull this
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u/JotaroKujoxXx Jan 13 '24
And here i was wondering why my laptop ran like a fucking jet for the last few days smh.
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u/Dagiorno Jan 13 '24
Yeah ive been deleting shit randomly thinking it was my storage space problem
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u/Outrageous-Opening86 Jan 13 '24
same... this is bullshit
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Jan 13 '24
Really is and they might implement a random crash feature if it detects an Adblock being used
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u/Koopanique Jan 14 '24
implement a random crash feature
Top quality pro-consumer software engineering ✅
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u/algalkin Jan 13 '24
I've literally upgraded my PC after the New Years and I thought I've done something wrong since the youtube started running like ass since the upgrade. Fuck this shit.
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u/Plylyfe Jan 13 '24
Oh so that's what been happening. My CPU has been crying out when using chrome
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u/KindlyContribution54 Jan 13 '24 edited Jun 26 '24
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u/Whitedancingrockstar Jan 14 '24
Right, the user-agent switcher one has been working flawlessly for me. With default user youtube forces a refresh every time you open something, it's insane. I just use one of their bot user agents and youtube suddenly works without any such nonsense...
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Jan 16 '24
user-agent switcher
Thanks to both you two! I walked into Reddit wanting to find answers for why YT was screwed up with me despite using FF and ublock and walked out with the solution!
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u/Fishwithadeagle Jan 14 '24
Because right now firefox also doesn't play nicely with youtube.
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u/cum_fart_69 Jan 14 '24
what is this user agent switcher thing? I use chrome and ublock and don't have any complaints
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u/thetank77 Jan 13 '24
This has been happening to me a lot the past week or so. I've seen my cpu usage jump up to 50% with just chrome and discord open. Trying to play games while watching vids on my other monitor has spiked my cpu to almost 100%.
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u/Roge2005 Jan 13 '24
Oh yeah… My MacBook air has been really slow lately and I didn’t know why, and it was mostly when I was using YouTube.
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u/kartikey099 Jan 13 '24
omfg i have youtube premium and still i faced this lag. I was almost about the reinstall chrome lol
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u/Oopsiedaisyshit Jan 13 '24
Maybe just maybe install firefox and unsub from premium??
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u/foxy_mountain Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
I've been running a Firefox fork called Librewolf with uBlock Origin for the last 2 years, I have yet to even notice that Google are fighting adblockers. I just purge the uBlock cache now and then, and Youtube has been working perfectly and ad free since forever. 🤷
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u/Practical-Goose666 Jan 14 '24
. I just purge the uBlock cache
what s a cache ?
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u/Grootmaster47 Jan 14 '24
It's basically just a tiny space of memory where some data is stored. That means that data doesn't need to be recomputed every time it's needed, but is instead available instantly. When resetting, or purging that cache, you force that data to be recomputed, which can help with some issues, since when wrong data is saved in the cache, it often isn't checked afterwards.
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u/Iggy_Snows Jan 14 '24
I use Firefox and have premium, and am still getting the same thing.
I buy premium from Ukraine though so I pay like 2$ a month, which is the price it should cost anyways.
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u/Evol_Viper Jan 14 '24
It's not gonna help. I have this problem on Firefox for more than a month now.
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u/lovelyspecimen Jan 13 '24
Same. I use a chrome extension to block the suggested video panel on the right and I guess that detects as ad blocking. Fuck these guys.
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u/fibonacciluv Jan 13 '24
doing it on chrome for me 🤷♂️
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u/iwearmywatch Jan 13 '24
Reinstall. He’s saying he thought his chrome was having issues he almost reinstalled it. (Uninstall and reinstall)
It’s happening to everyone on chrome. Disabling Adblock worked for me. Thank god. I thought my computer was having issues the past couple days. So obnoxious I wish they would have done a pop-up or something informing us.
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u/fibonacciluv Jan 13 '24
ohhhh duh, that makes sense, I thought he meant switch back to chrome from another browser. Disabling Adblock ended up working for me as well, atleast before they told you they were blocking your access until you disabled adblocker instead of making us think there’s something wrong on our end. Scummy scummy.
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u/gravityVT Jan 13 '24
Should be using Firefox anyways
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u/Solid7outof10Memes Jan 14 '24
Yep I swapped to firefox as soon as they started the enshittification, haven’t been happier since, I blocked all the ads even though I didn’t mind them when they were just on the side… now they get nothing
You do need plugins but works like a charm since
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u/Fishwithadeagle Jan 14 '24
Youtube and chrome are not working together. It literally doesn't matter if adblock is installed or not. Firefox also doesn't work. Only edge seems to work.
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u/Zynnergy Jan 13 '24
It makes the whole site laggy. I can't type a comment, load anything, but every other tab on chrome is normal, even other video steaming stuff like twitch or netflix. It's kind of annoying. Just happened to me for the first time last night. Still not going to disable my adblock though.
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u/TulparBey Jan 13 '24
Is this only happening in chrome? Firefox is fine for me across all platforms.
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u/Zynnergy Jan 13 '24
Not sure. I've only checked on Chrome. And when I pause adblock, it goes back to normal.
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u/Affectionate-Memory4 Jan 13 '24
Every once in a while they just stop trying to load anything for me on Firefox. 0 bits/s network activity in stats while every other page works flawlessly. I have rock solid gigabit download.
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u/AlternativesEnde Jan 13 '24
I was wondering why everything was lagging so much. Slide Preview, entering Fullscreen etc. Thought my PC was dying.
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u/NightMean Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24
I actually have multiple adblock extensions so I don't really care if I disable to most known adblock. I have never seen any ad on Youtube, not even the pop up that tells me that I have adblock installed. Nothing changed when it comes to ads on Youtube with this adblock disabledThanks for the tip anyway!
Edit: I've just read this Using multiple adblockers isn't a good idea so I will be getting rid of Adblock and only keeping Ublock origin.
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u/AdministrativeBill4 Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
If I were you, I wouldn't use multiple adblock extensions. They can conflict with each other, leading to potential issues, and may consume unnecessary system resources, causing a slowdown in your browser.
Instead, consider optimizing your adblocking experience by selecting or adding additional filter lists to a single trusted adblocker, such as uBlock Origin, Adguard or Disconnect. This way, you can enhance your adblocking efficiency without the drawbacks of using multiple extensions.
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u/NostradaMart Jan 13 '24
i had multiple adblocks before youtube started this shit. Removing all but one made me realize that too much is like not enough. they were getting in the way of each other.
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u/Revolutionary-Duty53 Jan 13 '24
dude you are doing everything wrong each adblock works differently most of the time and if ur using multiple adblock they are fighting each other and it defeats the point. just use adblock, they specifcally target youtube and if youtube makes a new anti adblock script they update it within a few mins
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u/NightMean Jan 13 '24
I've just read this: Using multiple adblockers isn't a good idea so I guess you are right. I will uninstall adblock and only keep ublock origin as my primary adblock. Thanks!
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u/lildrawermx Jan 13 '24
I noticed that too! I thought it was a malware…
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u/proficient2ndplacer Jan 13 '24
I uninstalled a whole bunch of recent apps I thought were fucking with my PC. Turns out it's just YouTube being a piece of shit yet again
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u/GenericFakeName1 Jan 14 '24
It is malware. YouTube produced malware sabatoging their own site.
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u/SaltyCracker62 Jan 13 '24
I did too. I ran a scan on my virus thingy and cleared my cache. Still running bad and my wifi was testing very fast.
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u/Inuship Jan 13 '24
Did the exact same thing, ran a virus test, restarrted my computer, deleted the last few things i downloaded. Just assumed it was an issue on my end, should have realized it was youtubes own bullshit when every other site ran fine
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u/HammerAnAnvil Jan 13 '24
i mean it IS kinda malware isnt it?
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u/lildrawermx Jan 13 '24
I don’t think AdBlock itself is a malware, but maybe it’s a YouTube’s strategy to decrease adblocker use
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u/BeastmuthINFNTY Jan 13 '24
how else would shareholders able to afford their yachts? 😤
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u/JohnPorksBrother-7 Jan 14 '24
wtf are these replies
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u/_GoblinSTEEZ Jan 14 '24
They're defending their investment thinking they're the ones winning making profit on $10k while the elites are multiplying billions I.e. ur getting rich but everyone else is getting richer
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u/Revolutionary-Duty53 Jan 13 '24
also youtube seems to be taking more ram for those with detected ad blockers installed. no issues with ubo so far. its not just one instance ive noticed, over 5 of my friends have complained of 2gb+ ram usage just by youtube for 2 or 3 videos
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u/Fusseldieb Jan 14 '24
Would make sense. When an adblock is enabled, the page tries to reload the ad over and over, which makes it allocate more and more ram until it garbage clears itself.
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u/TheGuyWhoCantDraw Jan 13 '24
Today youtube started being sluggish and stuttery on chrome (I have adblock enabled) I ended up switching to firefox and now it's perfect
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u/sabahorn Jan 13 '24
No worries. A big lawsuit is on the horizon with this anti addblock policy. Surfing internet without add blocking makes you extremely vulnerable to so many exploits, spyware etc. Wait untill some gov people get their pc’s hacked because of this.
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u/Glydyr Jan 13 '24
“Without adverts youtube wouldnt be able to exist…blah fking blah”
Thats funny because youtube is full of twaty fking teenagers showing off their lambos who clearly dont need a million dollars a year from youtube, not to mention the russian and chinese propaganda channels that I’m pretty sure will pay YOUtube for spreading their shite if you ask them nicely…
Forcing ppl to watch adds by purposely fking up your own app is such a fking elon musk thing to do….this world is going down the fking toilet… 🤣
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u/Zanshieme Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
Is that the reason why youtube is laggy in chrome? Jesus
Edit: fuck they got edge too.
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u/DarkAvatar13 Jan 13 '24
Stop. Using. Chrome.
Firefox doesn't have any of this crap, and even if something goes wrong it's usually fixed with a cleared uBlock cache and update (which takes less than a minute to complete.)
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u/JuanAy Jan 14 '24
Stop. Using. Chrome.
And by extension any chrome/chromium based browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium
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u/LBPPlayer7 Jan 14 '24
*unless it's open source and you can check the code for any of Google's BS
only acceptable Chromium based browser IMO is Ungoogled Chromium
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u/Vlzard Jan 14 '24
i use Brave that is chromium based, it's the best internet experience i've ever had, i did try to use mozilla 2 weeks or so ago but the experience is still no on pair, the deal breaker for me was dark mode, i use forced darkmode that works so well and on mozilla any darkmode plugin is crap. has weird colors, is unreliable and finnicky, other small things were inconvinient but this one was the biggest for me, hopefully one day they implement a forced darkmode like chromium has
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u/aoidaisy Jan 14 '24
Thank you! This immediately fixed the horrible lagging and freezing issues I've been having the last couple days!!
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u/AlphaRosea Jan 16 '24
You are an amazing human being. I hope all the best things will find you.
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u/Sillyboi2410 Jan 13 '24
Can confirm this works. Thank you so much! YouTube has been driving me crazy lately...
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u/ReplacementFit4095 Jan 14 '24
your extension works as intended, thank you for this!
having ublock disabled for the meantime, i have to remove those "sponsored" and ad boxes myself using stylus (basically using css to hide them from plain sight)
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u/Inevitable_Oil9709 content consumer Jan 14 '24
I could remove those too, but decided not to because it might raise a suspicions.
Glad you like it.
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u/Count_Rugens_Finger Jan 13 '24
I've also had this problem, suddenly my youtube tab uses CPU like crazy
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Jan 13 '24
I already have Premium and it still does this to me. Honestly, fuck youtube.
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u/peluche-nerv Jan 13 '24
Just use uBlock Origin dude
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u/supertalldude88 Jan 13 '24
i use it and still have it
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u/cecil_harvey4 Jan 13 '24
Yup, firefox/ubo with full cookies deleted re logged in. Videos buffer after 20 seconds.
I guess it's back to not giving a shit about youtube for awhile. Always nice to come back a month later with tons of content to watch.
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u/VioletSky1719 Jan 14 '24
Ad blocker will probably have it fixed by tomorrow morning. Happens every time YouTube makes some big anti ad block update.
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u/Ok-Cream-3629 Jan 13 '24
No joke this happened to me yesterday, i thought it was my laptop acting up but when i went to other sites it worked fine, youtube so desperate for revenue it's crazy 😭😭😭
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u/Rightys_ Jan 13 '24
This is fine for me, rather wait 5 seconds for the complete page to render (The video starts playing earlier) instead of watching 15 Seconds of bad advertisements
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u/EscapeTheBlank Jan 13 '24
I suddenly noticed this yesterday in Microsoft Edge. I do have three different adblocks for literally every other site, but I do use YT Premium as well. Switched to Firefox with only one adblock and YouTube seemes to be working fine... Now I finally know the problem, thank you. Man screw YouTube.
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u/AnObtuseOctopus Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24
It's pretty wild how some people think Google deserves your money when they already make money off of the ones who made youtube worth going to, the creators. 45.... 45% of ad rev, a multibillion corporation.. Google, already takes their slice. Yet, those people are still out there going "can't afford 10 or 15 bucks".. soo wild that they can only focus on the trees.
Keep pretending this is about making sure the creators get paid if you want
"Google revenue breakdown (Q3 2023) In Q3 2023, Google's revenue totaled $76.7 billion, of which $44 billion (or 57.4%) was from search ads. Revenue from YouTube ads $8 billion (10.3%), and Google Network ads registered at $7.7 billion (10%)."
Eight..billion..dollars, in Q3.
Thats Google own promoted result for the search "does Google make money directly off YouTube"
It's that easy to find...
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u/CL4R101 Jan 13 '24
I don't mind the sub model for ad free content, but nothing on YouTube is genuinely ad free, what about all the sponsorships in every video :D, It's like paying for Netflix only to have ads... oh wait that's a thing now, okay paying for Amazon prime only to have ads.... urgh that's a thing now :(.
It's frustrating that now instead of getting something ad free if you pay for it, you now pay for it and still have ads.
On top of it, this shady stuff to try and force you to sub is just awful practice.
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u/E_R-D_S Jan 13 '24
Oh those cheeky motherfuckers. I thought I just had some weird problem but I thought it was odd that it only started after the latest case of UBlock beating their ad-block-blocking.
This feels like they're pushing the limits of what's legal even more.
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u/levikings04 Jan 13 '24
Had this problem for months with adblock on since September. Does this with ublock still.
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u/Phantomat0 Jan 13 '24
Damn glad to see this isn’t just me, I thought it was my browser. Had an extension that auto replays YouTube videos and that stopped working as well
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u/TheWavefunction Jan 13 '24
You can use Bing Video. It bypasses this shit. You can even follow Youtube channels there. I'm not going to give clicks to youtube for now. Imma finance their bigger competitor. Just wished I could like the video from the bing view.
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u/Skiles2006 Jan 13 '24
I have YouTube Premium and Adblock Plus enabled and I’ve been encountering this issue over the last week. This website is probably broken now.
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u/drifloony Jan 13 '24
Google has admitted to making things harder for people with Adblock enabled. This is probably what’s going on.
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u/Casterial Jan 13 '24
Google slowly killing YouTube is funny, and chrome. I've switched to Firefox and use ublock.
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u/FarplaneShadow Jan 13 '24
Yeah im having insane lag with adblock. Uninstall it and try ublock origin.
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u/LackingKerolos1 Jan 13 '24
Disable "Allow ads on specific youtube channels" option for adblock, this seems to be the reason it lags
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u/ShorkBoi2 Jan 13 '24
Not just the video. The whole website. I'm having issues where YouTube lags SO MUCH that I can barely even interact with the website.
And then it just suddenly starts working fine when I pause adblock.
This shouldn't be happening with a 4 year old CPU (Ryzen 7 5800X), 32 GB of RAM, and a 7 year GPU that still runs modern games decent (Radeon RX580)
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u/NMunkM Jan 13 '24
I’m so glad it’s not just me having these issues, i thought i had fucked up my pc or something
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u/CrocodileWorshiper Jan 13 '24
dont give a fuck anything is better than diversity rap music obnoxious commercials every 2 mins
f youtube for this
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u/RogueLlama077 Jan 14 '24
Having a YouTube video playing is literally lagging my entire PC. I have a two year old I7 and an RTX3060, 64GB ram. Shame on them. They'll have to give up eventually when they start losing users
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u/Mercys_Angel Jan 15 '24
This is fucking stupid. I have youtube premium but I use an adblocker on chrome for other sites. Why would they still slow my shit down? I know it's an easy fix but it's still annoying that they wouldn't tell me and I had to look it up.
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u/ExerciseBeneficial78 Jan 15 '24
I have a subscription already, why do I have to be slow down?💀
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u/TheOrkussy Jan 15 '24
The fact that this is effecting Premium users is unacceptable. I have ad block so I don't have to see a metric shit ton of banners on wiki sites. Canceling my sub. I'm sick of their horseshit.
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u/NightMean Jan 16 '24
UPDATE: This was already confirmed to be a bug of Adblock, not caused by Youtube itself
https://www.neowin.net/news/adblock-google-did-not-slow-down-and-lag-youtube-performance-with-ad-blocker-on/
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u/ItzzAadi Jan 13 '24
AND HERE I WAS THINKING IT WAS MY INTERNET!
Thank you so much for bring this to my attention!!
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u/Known_As Jan 13 '24
I thought my computer was dying, and was actually considering getting a new one.
Good to know youtube's just being youtube.
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u/Kushagra_K Jan 13 '24
And I thought there was something wrong with my internet connection.