Latest consensus is that YouTube performance issues seem to be Adblock Plus' fault.

That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

  • Newtra@pawb.social
    37·
    8 months ago

    The funny thing is that YouTube’s code is already so laggy that we all believed this without a second thought.

  • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
    12·
    8 months ago

    Just stay off YouTube for a fucking month. Or even a week. If the traffic plummets, then we win. Why’s it so hard to understand this?

    Hell, make it one day where nobody uses YouTube.

    • _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
      5·
      8 months ago

      If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.

    • pup_atlas@pawb.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      That would be a dream come true for Youtube. Think about how that would affect them financially, they would be serving significantly less load, but they would still rake in all those Youtube premium subscriptions. It would effectively be campaigning to remove the users who aren’t monetized from the platform.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

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    Turning off the ad blocker immediately improves loading performance, with the white line on YouTube’s progress bar showing significantly more buffering runway.

    Users report that the ad-block detection causes strange issues, like “lag” that makes full screen or comments not work or Chrome being unable to load other webpages while YouTube is open.

    The company previously has been showing pop-up messages saying ad blockers violate YouTube terms of service.

    But the slowdowns may be a big accident from ad blockers altering YouTube’s code: Adblock Plus has published a bug report covering “performance issues” introduced by version 3.22 and says things should be fixed in version 3.22.1. uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill says the issue is limited to AdBlock Plus and its spinoffs and that blaming YouTube is “an incorrect diagnosis.”

    The straightforward thing would be to show more of these pop-ups and not send people on a wild goose chase after fake technical issues.

    This post was updated on January 15 at 4:20 pm ET with Adblock Plus’ bug report information and developer Raymond Hill’s statement.

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    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
      7·
      8 months ago

      If employing an adblocker is “altering YouTube’s code” then opening the wrapper on a Snicker’s bar is “altering Snicker’s product.” The code runs on my device, I get to say how and when and whyfor. It’s akin to receiving something in the mail… I now own that copy and can do with it what I wish pursuant to all relevant laws.