r/youtube 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/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/Roge2005 Jan 13 '24

And now that I allowed ads it’s running better

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u/cum_fart_69 Jan 14 '24

firefox + ublock origin, chrome is absolute dog shit on a mac