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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

yeah its time for people to leave yt

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

does anyone here use librewolf? for the past month or so YouTube has been completely fucked there. constantly freezing, sometimes pic only, sometimes fully as if my internet is slow, which it isn't.

I'm suspecting they're purposely fucking it for non chromium browsers but haven't seen much complaining about it. i go back to Vivaldi for YouTube for now which works perfectly but soon enough the ublock will stop working.

does it happen to anyone? is it non chromiums? is it librewolf? is it just mine?

[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Firefox working fine for me

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

Oh, it's sleep(5) all over again.

[–] TeutonenThrasher@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm using LibreWolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript where I selectively allow scripts and I never got an ad served on YT

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[–] TurdMongler@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yes. Noticed yesterday. I was even logged in to a friend's YouTube Premium account. Loaded like I have slow internet.

[–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, when ive resorted to yt directly on librewolf it usually freezes/buffers and tab needs refreshing every 5-10mins or so of vid. Sometimes it’s ok. Pretty inconsistent. I use ublock and sponsor block with librewolf . Usually i use invidious or yattee, Which have their own issues also playing whackamole with the giant

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

based on another comment I'll check out privacy badger and noscript; see if that helps

[–] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

With my Argentine premium account I don't see any ads...

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[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I am not a content creator and do not upload anything. My use would just be as a consumer.

As a consumer, I will not use YT simply because of ads and the way they have made removing ads without a premium subscription so ridiculously difficult and time consuming.

Imo, having ads thrown in your face when you pause it, is reason enough not to use again.

[–] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

good thing I use redacted in Firefox and apps that are cracked like redacted

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

My SO wants to upgrade our TV, so when we go to the store, they see big, beautiful displays, and I just see ads.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is specifically about TV apps.

[–] Rob200@lemmy.autism.place 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any investors question would be, why did this take Google Youtube so long to implement such a feature, of course this is why the ads are being crammed like this on Smart TVs.

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