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I'm yet to see literally any of these things while using UBO, I almost feel like I'm being gaslighted at times.
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 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.
That's thanks to their shitty javascript. Gosh, I hate sites doing that so much
Just let me use my browser the way it's intended to instoad of loading every shitty little html element dynamically with your shitty js doing shitty network requests dropping them like crazy
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.
The last two times there were also errors like not being able to upvote anything. Later, I found it was a global youtube issue. YouTube needs to improve to be able to serve people at its scale.
Why? Why are you paying YouTube? What is wrong with you?
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...
I've been tempted to sign up as well so I can stream to my TV through their app. I can block anything I want through my PC but smart TV's are too locked down for my technical knowledge so I get ad's which is unacceptable
There are android apps (I could side load) on my Nvidia shield, but like I said I don't mind paying for something I use , and use a lot.
YTmusic is the main reason I bothered to pay for premium. I was using Spotify and had a trial of 3months. The quality of recommendations was decent so chose to stick around. Adfree YouTube was another bonus.
I think a better question: Why are they reading YouTube comments?
I read comments! I watch a lot of videos about self hosting services and the comments is where you find other people who have followed the video and struggled at some point. If you're lucky it's a common sticking point you're stuck on and someone in the comments has a way of fixing it.
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.
This is me, too. The alternative seems to be Spotify (also going shitty) or self hosting. I miss the hell out of gpm, but ytm at least works and it comes with ad free YouTube. Not the worst deal out there
I'm a YouTube premium subscriber with Adguard Home and haven't noticed anything slow.
Ad blockers have differences and some are better than others.
I used Ublock Origin too and I had problems so
I combine UBO with No Script and Privacy Badger. I've not seen any slow downs or ads or anything else.
Not sure Privacy Badger brings anything, it stopped doing local learning a long time ago. Just enable the anti tracking lists in uBO.
Those three is a solid combo to gain granualar control over tracking. Playing around with it is a good way to learn how the survilance mechanisms actually work.
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.
While I wouldn't put it past Google/YouTube to do something as shitty as this, I think people are far too quick to assume foul play over the much more likely possibility that the world's largest video platform occasionally shits itself.
There was a few weeks earlier this year I was getting ads on YouTube even with UBO. But it seems UBO has returned to its rightful place as winners of that arms race again.
I have noticed slightly worse performance across the web in general though
Same except I watch with Freetube 99% of the time. Never once had it happen to me.
I had completely forgotten about their war on adblockers. Haven't had to play with uBlock for months.
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.
UBO has options to limit how much is blocked, although I haven't played around with how granular the options are.
There are a few websites that I have UBO disabled because they have always had unobtrusive ads.
At the very beginning of their crackdown I remember I had to update shit a few times to get rid of that 'no adblocker' screen but yeah...its been months now and youtube is perfectly normal.
I would have said the same if loading any youtube page didnβt take literally like 15 seconds
I just loaded up a video instantly with Firefox + uBlock Origin.
Google-owned YouTube succeeded in shutting down the popular third-party YouTube Vanced app back in 2022
And 4 seconds later an alternative appeared.
Somehow Nintendo was harder on litigating yuzu than Google was on vanced
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.
Is this fake alert again, like with that bug in the Adblock Plus? I didn't notice any issues.
"it's rolling out in waves!"
It's been kind of a long time for them to not have covered everyone. I suspect it's just user error, especially considering the source of these articles is always just "some dude on social media saying trust me bro."
Is this country specific? The EU has existing law in many countries that allows users to filter out ads.
That's actually just kinda hilarious ngl
"this might have been a bug"
that or they didn't like the PR so they reverted it till later
YT any% speedrun
How many Youtube employees would be assigned to frontend/adblock sabotage efforts? I'm wondering whether the law of diminishing returns will be observed, or will the company have sufficient resources to maintain the shenanigans indefinitely.
If it's the latter, Youtube can rest assured my resolve will match theirs, until the damned thing gets paywalled...
It would be so interesting to see how the internet reacts to YouTube going paywalled. It would probably kill a lot of YT creators' revenue and views.
Or maybe people would pay for it, idk. Do people spend more time on YouTube than they do Disney+ or Hulu or Netflix, given YT Premium's cost?
Broadcast Yourself, if you're willing to let us slap money making machines all over your channel, and nobody can get rid of them.