Adblock: Google did not slow down and lag YouTube performance with ad blocker on
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According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all.

Adblock: Google did not slow down and lag YouTube performance with ad blocker on - Neowin::According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all.

  • DeadNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    6 months ago

    ABP has that stinky practice of marking ads as “acceptable” (basically those companies pay ABP to be on their “allowlist”).

    As has already been mentioned - stop using ABP, and use uBO instead. It’s a lifesaver.

  • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    6 months ago

    Google slows down Firefox. After I installed UA switcher and changed UA for YouTube it became very snappy.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachtsEnglish
    181·
    6 months ago

    Everyone keeps pointing the fingers at ad blockers, but it’s general enshitification. A website which does nothing more than display some thumbnails, some text comments, and a video should not work as poorly as YouTube does. And yet, they are so many layers of recommendation engines deep that blackbox AIs have more control over the website than actual humans, and more CPU cycles are spent guessing what I want to watch than loading what I am currently watching. I have the most expensive consumer GPU that AMD makes and I still regularly see graphical glitches on YouTube