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| SiliconWizard:
I hadn't been affected by YT's attempts to curb Adblocking so far. Been using Firefox for a long time, and never saw any issue (at least with the setups and Adblockers I use) until very recently. Just the past week or so. I still do not see any ad and videos are not blocked or suspended, but I noticed the YT web interface has become ultra slow and laggy compared to just a few days earlier still. YT may possibly deploy various strategies in different parts of the world. Dunno. I've read about that kind of sudden lag due to adblocking in various articles in last december, so I'm not the only one noticing. Interestingly, I use Opera on mobile devices, with adblockers too, and didn't notice the same issue with this setup. Anyone else noticed this newfound laggy UI? |
| rdl:
They report this on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/youtube-appears-to-be-reducing-video-and-site-performance-for-ad-block-users/ |
| srb1954:
Even if you don't have an ad blocker YT seems to delay loading of content immediately after you skip an ad. There is quite often a buffering delay of 3-4 seconds after skipping an ad. I have noticed this for the last couple of months and don't have any buffering delays with any other YT content. |
| SiliconWizard:
Here this is a general lag in the whole YT web interface. It's not even just when you watch a video - actually in my case, once a video starts, it plays normally till the end. But everything is laggy, displaying comments, displaying thumbnails in the YT home page, etc. Noticed that when it lags, it takes CPU. So it must be something nasty in JS code, or they manage to bombard adblockers with stuff to process, making them in turn the source of lag - it's not just "network" delays, the lag definitely comes with extra CPU use. |
| AlfBaz:
I believe Louis Rossmann just released a video about it |
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