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Youtube slowing down due to addblock (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 8 months ago by hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

I haven't seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it's no different than hitting youtube directly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

"Checked to see if there was any delay" is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.

That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

OK. I'm not claiming google isn't trying. I'm claiming it doesn't matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.