Technology

I saw something that might be this happening last week where every video took an extra 20 seconds to load and presented a popup that took you to the support page where the first thing listed to troubleshoot your problem was disabling ad blockers, but this week the videos are perfect and load normally; but the rest of the page is absolutely fucked. Like the "playables" section last night was tripping balls and looked like a slot machine as the entries randomly changed around at light speeds. The comments, related videos section on the right, description, etc all just refuse to load now on Firefox for me.

Considering these issues for me have only happened recently, and coincidentally around the same time an issue with Google services took a shitton of the entire Internet down for almost a whole day, I suspect it's not about blocking ad blockers so much as it is Google just fucking sucks at implementing any changes across the board of their products.

So here's what happened recently:

• I opened the Google News widget on my Android phone, saw a Sponsored link, and found it interesting
• Clicked on it, the link opened in Chrome, opening the googleadservices redirection thingummy
• Took over 5 seconds to process the redirect
• I exited the browser

Guess who missed ad money?

But of course, maybe they got the ad money and the only losers were:

• me, who didn't get to see the website that might actually have had something I wanted
• the website owner, who not only didn't get my business but also had to pay Google, because Google most probably processed the ad first and didn't care to process the redirect

I feel like I understand why they removed the "Do no evil" sign. Because now, they are messing with both, the product and the customers, only providing as much as is required to take their money, instead of the full, advertised service.

Freetube works pretty well, there's a cat and mouse game with youtube changes though.

https://freetubeapp.io/

uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:

||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com

I didn’t know if I’m crazy or of YouTube is genuinely slow for me (with adblocker)

Turns out I was not crazy

I've noticed occasional "buffering" before playback starts through the past week or so. Takes like ten seconds before the video starts playing. Hasn't been worse than that so far, knock on wood.

Youtube feels like an impossible service to actually compete with, whether through the enormous and complicated setup required or amassing creators/users. It's basically a monopoly and it sucks. One will just have to resist Google's bullshit using whatever means available for as long as possible.

Wish they could use Gemini to generate ad clicks instead.

I've got 500Mb fiber internet and YouTube refuses to stream above 360p unless i manually change it. Which each update becomes harder and harder to do as they hide the video quality button somewhere else.

Grayjay :)

Ok so im not crazy. I was wondering why videos kept buffering every minute this past week.

Revanced is fine so far

I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it's just that YouTube's website is shite.

Sample size one but I'm on Fedora with Firefox and uBlock. Not seeing any issues yet.

Why aren't you using another platform?

fine by me i listen to audio of videos i watch and i dont mind the lower resolution because it means im using less internet

Oh no! What will I—Video Downloader. I'll just watch offline at my leisure.