YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

Chukzombi said:

no ads on firefox anymore. its back to normal for me.

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Same here too after I did a recent reformat/install. My kids would enjoy watching silly counting/color videos that were 30-60+ minutes long and it became way too common for me to glance up from a book and see an ad that was 30+ minutes long itself. Bitch thats an episode of something, not an ad.

if you use brave you can manually purge your filters by going to brave://components and force an update to fix youtube bitching
took me a while to find it, should be more obvious

No issues past few weeks. I'm permanently logged into YouTube since before this started. I have never actually logged into an account during this, which it sounds like might affect it.

Firefox and UBO only. Never seen a warning or a strike ever.

Based on what has been reported here in early December, it sounds like users who log into YouTube get printed by the new YouTube adblock system.

Is Google changing tactics? In the last few weeks I've noticed YouTube is absolutely dogshit slow and unresponsive. Like it takes 4-6 seconds for the video UI to appear when I mouse over, then another 4-6 for the curor to switch from the desktop arrow to the pointer finger when I track over the control elements, and a similar amount of time to respond to play/pause or seek in a video. This happens only for YouTube and not any other site or tab, including video. This is on firefox, and yes, I've rebooted and I've got gigabit fiber.

Captain Suave said:

Is Google changing tactics? In the last few weeks I've noticed YouTube is absolutely dogshit slow and unresponsive. Like it takes 4-6 seconds for the video UI to appear when I mouse over, then another 4-6 for the curor to switch from the desktop arrow to the pointer finger when I track over the control elements, and a similar amount of time to respond to play/pause or seek in a video. This happens only for YouTube and not any other site or tab, including video. This is on firefox, and yes, I've rebooted and I've got gigabit fiber.

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On Vivaldi (Chromium based): I just opened up 8 or so various videos from Lex Freeman to Police Watch and it's working like normal for me.

Captain Suave said:

Is Google changing tactics? In the last few weeks I've noticed YouTube is absolutely dogshit slow and unresponsive. Like it takes 4-6 seconds for the video UI to appear when I mouse over, then another 4-6 for the curor to switch from the desktop arrow to the pointer finger when I track over the control elements, and a similar amount of time to respond to play/pause or seek in a video. This happens only for YouTube and not any other site or tab, including video. This is on firefox, and yes, I've rebooted and I've got gigabit fiber.

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They stated a few weeks back they were doing this to users that they could detect blocking ads. Vivaldi still working fine.

just got hit with my first pop-up, I just closed it and restarted the video

Lanx said:

their ads aren't getting filtered no more

no cai xuan, i'm not interested in expired ass, youre almost as old as me!

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I have one of those videos on my recommended also. Guess which one it is

Captain Suave said:

Is Google changing tactics? In the last few weeks I've noticed YouTube is absolutely dogshit slow and unresponsive. Like it takes 4-6 seconds for the video UI to appear when I mouse over, then another 4-6 for the curor to switch from the desktop arrow to the pointer finger when I track over the control elements, and a similar amount of time to respond to play/pause or seek in a video. This happens only for YouTube and not any other site or tab, including video. This is on firefox, and yes, I've rebooted and I've got gigabit fiber.

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I'm not closing my tabs or resetting anything to test.

Right now on Firefox I have a near 3 second loading delay on the domain minimum, and then clicking videos is about a near 2 sec delay and slow loading that you describe. Not near 4-5 seconds for me, but it's noted.

If you mean "it seems like I'm on a 1999 internet connection", then yeah I see that. However, as another poster said last month-- drops in performance are not enough to force me to switch. I have 0 ad problems throughout this whole thing. Never saw a warning or anything about ads ever. My performance issues are not as bad as yours are, but similar enough that I know what you're talking about.

My CPU idle being near 70 C is the reason I'd ultimately switch from Firefox at some point. AMD and Firefox don't mix. It's just unsustainable and I already lost one CPU to it.

And what Hekotat said is accurate. They said they are throttling browsers that are detected as blocking. They would need to really throttle performance to a ridiculous degree to actually get anyone to stop using Firefox.

I have one PC with an older build of Firefox on it that has had that loading delay on youtube for years, same PC has brave installed and it's just fine on that. Might be worth to try, so far Ublock Origin and Brave or Edge have been ad-free for me as long as I let UO update before I open the youtube tab.

Still no issues for me with Brave.

So looks like googles latest tactic is to eat up cpu resources if you have adblock installed. Does it even if you are a premium member. I would think this is opening them up to lawsuits

Illegal as hell in the EU, would likely get them in trouble elsewhere depending on exactly what they are doing.

Animosity said:

Still no issues for me with Brave.

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Same. Not logged in, and no ads and no popups.