https://www.tomsguide.com/news/youtube-is-loading-slower-for-users-with-ad-blockers-yet-again
Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled
YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.
The performance issues are because of Adblock and Adblock Plus: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919#m
It affects more sites than just YouTube.
People still use AdBlock Plus? I thought that was long since dead. You know, since they sold out and let companies pay them to show ads.
not everyone keeps track of browser addon news, so... yeah? it's been a most recommended and recognizable ad blocker for a long time, so lots of people are probably still unaware of the changes after all those years and stick with it.
That piece of news is like a decade old. There are people on the net now that weren’t even born when AdBlock Plus turned to shit.
Changes like these are mostly A/B deployed, so it might eventually find itself to you.
...But I'm sure uBlock Origin will have put in a fix by that point.
For those that are not aware, set your VPN to Albania and you will never see a YouTube ad again.
presumably, it would be because ads are area dependent, and companies in Albania are not spending much on youtube ads.a
If you managed to get a VPN server on antarctica, you would likely see the same.
Again? Hasn't changed for me since they started doing that in November. YouTube is quite annoying to use for me these days, the site takes forever to load and only starts loading when I switch to the tab. Best thing to do is adding everything to a queue, videos load normally then for some reason. As a result I'm using YouTube less though, so not necessarily a bad thing.
I’m not sure the YouTube heads really thought this through. I’m doing the exact same thing. I got a Plex setup and I’ve been watching more and more content on that instead of YouTube. I honestly don’t even miss it. When I eventually go back and try to watch something on a non-ad block device (Apple TV), it further underscores how shitty the service is getting. Longer and longer ads and it seems like they are slowly getting louder than the content.
I don't live in the US so I don't have as easy access to random Android boxes like the ones on Amazon, but yeah I'll probably get one eventually. I have a Chromecast 4K, but I haven't really explored all the available apps yet. I'd love to be able to sideload apps, if I could get Grayjay on there that'd be awesome.
If you get a fire stick from Amazon and load smarttube app (side loading) you can use that and all the adverts and sponsor sections will be blocked out of your YouTube viewing. You can login to your YouTube account also with the app.
Then you are part of the problem.
If no one bought that crap there wouldn’t be an insensitive for this psychological warfare.
Imagine paying for content. What's the saying? If it's free you are the product?
Anyway, I paid long before the AdBlock crackdown.
Idk man, paying for YT premium feels like paying for an ad-free experience, not content. Like my subscription would be going to YT, not the creators who made the content.
You forget that YouTube was always free in the before times of long long ago. Content was free and delivered flawlessly. Minimal ads. Maybe banner ads or something. Now it's ads every few minutes.
That's obviously not sustainable. At some point they need to recover expenses on all their infrastructure and development. It can either be through ads or a subscription model. Alternatively they shut down permanently. Which do you want?
At this point, I'm fine with it shutting down. If it shut down, creators would go somewhere else, we could end up with something much better. i won't watch youtube if I have to watch minutes of ads before the video, and more throughout the video. Hard fucking pass.
They had paid for it for years. The sustainability relied on the range of services vs the service itself. For example, Walmart doesn't really profit on big tvs. Typically the markup is negative. They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc. It's not a this or that for me. It's the choice of the company to change it up to be more profitable.
Let's be real, the point of a business is to make money. More money = more success, right? But what happens when you reach one billion dollars? Is one more billion more successful?
This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you've won. Stop being a greedy dick.
They had paid for it for years.
Yes. With the intent of making a profit eventually. Or they wouldn't have.
They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc.
What is YouTube going to "combat" with if not advertising or subscriptions...?
This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.
One billion means nothing if you're spending tens of billions per year to continue operating. I'm not suggesting the CEO of YouTube deserves to get richer. I'm saying the company has operational expenses and investments that require some level of profitability, and "free for everyone forever" is literally just not a viable option.
I just bypass google entirely by hosting my own modified invidious instance and nuked my account.
Free, no clutter, blazing fast. Took maybe 20 minutes to setup.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + User Agent Switcher (set to Chrome). I did get the pop-up once saying they would cut me off. I cleared cache and browsing data and haven't seen the warning since. 🤞
The only issue I have with YouTube is that while using an Ad blocker it doesn't track videos I have already seen in my subscriptions.
So it will tell me that I didn't watch a video I just watched.
A small price to pay for an ad free experience but a bit annoying still.
Don't worry, my youtube does manage to track my watch history, and yet it will still recommend me a video I've just seen anyway!
If your history isn't working, it's probably because you're blocking s.youtube.com. If you whitelist that, history should work again.
I disabled all my adblockers except for adnauseam with strict blocking and now youtube is running really fast.
Adnauseam is the best because it clicks all the ads it blocks, making the anti-adblock bullshit think you're clicking on ads.
Getting it on a chromium based browser is a little bit of a chore, but it's well worth it, because no other adblocker works consistently
It’s baffling to me, how many people complain about YouTube- and continue to use YouTube. At this rate, they could murder your families and you’d still give them business.
JUST STOP USING YOUTUBE.