Youtube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
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Posted in r/youtube by u/NightMean • 4,948 points and 775 comments
  • zurohkiEnglish
    1062·
    10 months ago

    The best part is, no matter how terrible they make Youtube with adblock, they still can’t get it as bad as Youtube without adblock.

  • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
    391·
    10 months ago

    Yeah and the worst shit is its happening to me and I have goddamn youtube premium so it wouldnt be showing me ads anyway.

    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish
      39·
      10 months ago

      Guess that’s your signal to unsubscribe if the premium experience is this bad. Hit Google where it hurts the most.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    Hmm, that would explain the issues I’ve been having. The odd thing to me is that there’s no feedback provided to let the user know that this is a response to adblock. I assumed that there were just technical problems somewhere.

  • nicerdicer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t had any issues with slow buffering yet, but I have experienced something different: Sometimes the video playback suddenly stops altogether in the middle and throws me out of the video completely. I suspect that an ad is supposed to be played in this particular part of the video. I have to re-start playing the video from the part where it threw me out. Sometimes this happens several times in the same video.

    I use the latest Firefox in combination with uBlock Origin (also always up-to-date).

    Edit: typos

  • THCDenton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    Looking forward to finally quitting youtube. My quality of life is gonna improve.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I am a premium member but over the last week or so my YouTube videos suddenly started to take an eternity (5-10 seconds) to start playing when they were near instant before. Does YouTube assume I have an ad blocker? I have no Chrome Extensions and no deliberately installed Ad Blockers on Win 11. Going to play around with it tomorrow to see if I can determine what is going on.

    • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I have pihole and premium. I get a lot of buffer stalls too. Started recently. But they’re also updating the Android app every couple weeks, so I assumed they are screwing things all up out of incompetence.

      This must be some exec’s hard focus right now. What a tool.

      • yabai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m in the same boat, wondered what was up with this weird buffering that I’ve never had before. Guess I’ll white-list YouTube ads…