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uBlock Origin updates
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I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG's privacy ad on's and I have no problems with YT
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Good riddance, I can't wait until I'm free from the instant gratification of videos by fancy ad vessels being narcissistic on the internet. The move to video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I already use sponsorblock, ublock and dearrow alongside Vanced patches, piped and newpipe on mobile. Quitting YT is the next step.
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I'm not having that issue. I also use Freetube as a backup on desktop.
I've been having this.
My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses. Thats assuming the page loads at all, which may take a few refreshes...and its not an internet/connection related issue.
happening with Firefox with ublock origin.
edit Honestly, the youtube pages (and only the youtube pages) act slow and laggy like the CPU is running at 100% doing hard number crunching. yet system monitor shows its not even breaking 10% load on the CPU, and that firefox's process isnt even using half that, so it feels like theres something artificially slowing the page down, in retrospect.
My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses
I'm seeing this as well. Except I'm not using an adblocker on youtube, and I am paying for youtube premium...
I don't think it's entirely caused by youtube fighting adblockers. I think it's more likely just a regular, boring, old fashioned fuck-up.
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I'm surprised Google didn't try to push some sort of compiled javascript, to avoid examination, till now.
Web assembly ? It's not driven only by Google, but I think they have been involved.
Does anyone know an alternative YT app for BOTH Android phones and Android TV that allows for synched playlists?
PlayLet works for me.
Firefox with uBO, haven't seen an add or ran into any issues in ages, both windows and linux.
Sometimes I need to refresh the page for the video to play but otherwise no issues, ff+ubo ftw
Exactly, this! uBlock Origins will block upwards of thousands of ads/trackers/whatever from YouTube. After it hits about 50k+, it'll start to act strangely. At that point I just refresh the video and it all goes away. I think this happens when YouTube changes something cached in the browser, which was originally not blocked by uBO, even when uBO might have been updated to block the new stuff. I have uBO on auto-update for this reason. Whenever I notice shit not working, F5 FTW!
Shhhhhhhh..........don't let the mainstream know.......once EVERYBODY is doing it, they'll fix it.
Wait. This is Lemmy. Pretty sure there's like 8 people here......
And Arch, BTW.
Didnt noticed it with smarttube https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ or https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ;)
Sounds like a bug in the filters used by Adblock and Adblock Plus. Afaik uBO or Adguard aren't affected.
Can confirm, no issues with uBO and Smart Tube Next on my TV.
Guys does this affect invidious instance? I recently moved to Tubular and I'm loving it. I just want to make sure it lasts long.
For quite some time now I've had the issue that the video simply refuses to stop playing requiring me to refresh the page. Might be an issue with one of the add-ons too though.