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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have premium, uBlock Origin, and Mullvad VPN. In Firefox the other day, the stream was dying every 10-30 seconds. Like it would just stop and give me a spinner. I would have to "Copy URL at current time", open a new tab, and paste it in to get it to go any further. I do have bad internet, but this was nuts. And then I gave up and used Duck, and it played flawlessly in their embedded player.

Good job, Google.

If it happens again, I'll try disabling uBlock Origin on YouTube and see if it improves.