I had completely forgotten about their war on adblockers. Haven’t had to play with uBlock for months.
I would have said the same if loading any youtube page didn’t take literally like 15 seconds
Did you have to mess around with it at some point?
I’ve been Firefox with uBlock Origin for a couple years and haven’t ever messed around with the settings other than turning it off for a few select websites. Haven’t had any of the issues other people reported with youtube.
At the very beginning I had to switch from ABP to uBO. I actually used ABP specifically because I wanted to allow through some non-obtrusive ads, because I think it’s morally right to let companies make a profit if they’re not being overly obnoxious about it, and ABP’s Acceptable Ads policy is great for that. Unfortunately ABP was slower to implement something to avoid YouTube’s fuckery, so I switched to uBO. Google has shot themselves in the foot because now instead of a small number of ads getting through, none do.
I’m yet to see literally any of these things while using UBO, I almost feel like I’m being gaslighted at times.
I combine UBO with No Script and Privacy Badger. I’ve not seen any slow downs or ads or anything else.
I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber and use adguard. But, I have been experiencing the YouTube app being slow in loading comments for some reason.
I’m a YouTube premium subscriber with Adguard Home and haven’t noticed anything slow.
To be honest Youtube has always been slow to me, especially their streams. God, their streams are an absolutely resource hog, I’ve never seen a chat use up so much CPU power.
I think youtube has just started needing way more bandwidth than it used to. A few years ago, 100KB/s would load a videos page almost instantly, comments as well, and smoothly run 360p playback. Now even at 160KB/s I often spend 60+ seconds for parts of the page to even load.
I can tell you why I do. I watch more YT than anything else (on my TV), and don’t want to watch ads, or play cat and mouse games trying to prevent them. I also listen to a lot of music, and use YT Music. I pay for the family plan, since we all listen to music, and my son and I watch a lot of YT (very different videos on YT however :) )
I get, there’s a growing group of people that think everything should be free, but I’m OK paying for something I use a lot, to remove ads. There should, however be more controls for paid users, like controlling whether or not you see creator ads, shorts, etc…
It’s free with my YouTube music sub. I was grandfathered into the cheapest price from the Google play music launch. I like a lot of tech and science videos and I watch YouTube for that. Worth it to me.
I mean, the earlier attempts google/youtube made to block adblockers by putting up a notice to turn it off, etc., were openly stated as being tested only on some users. As expected, only some users experienced that. You’re just part of the more fortunate majority that isn’t an unwilling guinea pig for google’s attempts to force everyone to watch ads or pay premium.
Google-owned YouTube succeeded in shutting down the popular third-party YouTube Vanced app back in 2022
And 4 seconds later an alternative appeared.
Anyone who knows Nintendo’s history, knows that they go super hard on litigating. Don’t let the happy little mascots fool you, they’re as aggressive as Disney when they think they can get away with it.
Google, on the other hand, still has some software people in their management structure.
Well they’ve shut down revanced for good apparently. I can’t make it load videos anymore. I used to be able to just reinstall and fix it, but it can’t be fixed anymore.
That’s actually just kinda hilarious ngl
Is this fake alert again, like with that bug in the Adblock Plus? I didn’t notice any issues.
