YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
Posted in r/youtube by u/NightMean • 4,945 points and 775 comments
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
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.
Yeah and the worst shit is its happening to me and I have goddamn youtube premium so it wouldnt be showing me ads anyway.
Guess that's your signal to unsubscribe if the premium experience is this bad. Hit Google where it hurts the most.
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
Only way I watch YouTube is with Vanced app. This is getting ridiculous though.
Looking forward to finally quitting youtube. My quality of life is gonna improve.
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.
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.
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...
Apparently, this time it wasn't on Youtube. Rather some users are still using AB/ABP, and there's a bug in those that affects a lot of content, not just Youtube.