Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
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People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin
I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case
So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn't have the problems they're having
I feel the same.
Working at a college its always shocking finding out a lot of the youth don't know ad blocking at least. Volunteering after my shift to help with tutoring or other help they will try to show me a youtube video even on their personal laptop. Every start of a semester its something that leaves me shaking my head.
I don't really like the term "echo chamber," but that sort of thing makes me realize I'm really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don't know the first thing about such things.
I remember one time this kid asked me, "What's Chromium? I have this app called 'Chromium' but I don't know what it's for," so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it's an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled "Chromium."
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.
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Even if they throttled my speed so that I'm wasting the same amount of time waiting for the site to load as i would be by watching an ad, I still win because I didn't have to watch an ad.
firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.
Or Newpipe
or Revanced
or Freetube.
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Isn't it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I'm just not interested)
The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.
Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.
And on top of that there's only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline
You're going to get suicide booth ads if you don't watch out.
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YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
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The word is "advertisement" which has only one "d", so the shortened form of it is "ad' or "ads".
But it is "added" to the video! /s
Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.
Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.
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If you're experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription
Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.
NewPipe x SponsorBlock
Or Revanced - Sponsorblock is one of the packages you can patch into it.
youtube-dlp is your friend then - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Also mpv, it can use yt-dlp as a backend to play videos from urls: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
I'm glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.
I <3 invidious. Was traveling recently and didn't have access to my home invidious instance and WOW, yt sucks without it.
I use tailscale. Too easy to setup
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I'm quite satisfied with GrayJay app.
I set my user agent to a google bot. Everything works other than steam chat.
Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos
I stopped watching videos on YouTube and instead started to use mpv since it allows me to watch the video at a higher resolution without burning my PC
I've always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.
I use Baking Soda and Vinegar to convert all videos in Safari (macOS and iOS) to the native video player. Automatically selects the highest quality video available and skips ads.
Yes, use Newpipe
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