Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?
Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919
I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.
Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.
and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?
Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)
That's a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn't on google but the extensions themselves.
Source?
I have post history of going through their JS, this is a Google-sucks thing, full stop.
uBO Dev already shared it in the twitter thread but here you go
https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1725604837
YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.
Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos
I've always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.
Unpopular opinion but.......who fucking cares? Youtube with ublock origin takes like 3 extra fucking seconds to load. 3 second delay is still worlds better than a 30+ second unskippable add. It's not a big deal..
