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It is likely you use Chrome or a browser that uses Blink for its engine and the OP uses a non-blink browser like Firefox. I use Firefox and I can cofirm since t
by PuercoPop 10mo ago
It is likely you use Chrome or a browser that uses Blink for its engine and the OP uses a non-blink browser like Firefox. I use Firefox and I can cofirm since the last few months Youtube usability borders on usable
- MrNeon 10mo agoI use Firefox with uBlock and besides a couple of times where video start was delayed by a few seconds it has been working as well as before.
- viftodi 10mo agoGoogle does A/B testing for anti ad blockers. Not only do I get slowdowns and some videos don't load at all at times, but I also get a notification that explains that the reason is using adblockers.
- oldestofsports 10mo agoHere I am, totally given up on adblockers, and no way I’m paying for premium, but jesus christ the amount of ads I get, sometimes seems to be one every minute, making most videos unwatchable. Though it’s mostly good for my addiction since it makes me use youtube less.
- o11c 10mo agoRecently I've found Youtube to just show a white screen if it detects Firefox+uBO.
- Ohmec 10mo agoThere's probably scripts you can add to your ubo to combat this.
- tedivm 10mo agoFor the last two days I haven't been able to watch youtube videos on Firefox without disabling uBlock.
- mltsd 10mo agoI've disabled adblock/vpn and can watch maybe 1-2 videos before the video player starts blacking out on each one. Only restarting firefox "resets" it and I haven't been able to find a reason for this happening. Time for yt-dlp I guess
- a96 10mo agoI disable youtube instead when this happens.
- tedivm 10mo agoIf I care enough I'll yl-dlp it to my jellyfin server, but yeah I mostly just don't bother.
- xenophonf 10mo agoI had the same problem. Make sure you're running the latest version of uBlock Origin. By that I mean you should explicitly check for updates and install the latest version. That fixed it for me.
- recursive 10mo agoI'm using Firefox.
- TiredOfLife 10mo agoI use Chrome and it's not good. They recently removed ability to force AV1 to only low resolution videos and as a result I had to disable HW acceleration in Chrome because accelerated AV1 decoding is broken on Steam Deck.
- rubyn00bie 10mo agoYeah, big same here. It’s pretty frustrating, because I pay for YouTube premium, but cannot use my preferred browser. I have to use Chromium in order to have it work reliably. Doubly so considering it worked fine in Firefox for YEARS… until maybe six months ago? It feels like something the FTC should be investigating, or perhaps a European equivalent, but I doubt it will.
- dotancohen 10mo agoThe FTC will not investigate anything that was not reported to them. Did you report your experience? They do care about these issues, if you care enough to take six minutes to report it.
- jorvi 10mo agoThey've also started to be really aggressive against VPNs. I've tried Private Internet Access, Mulvad and AirVPN and often I have to cycle through 5-15(!) servers before YouTube stops saying "sign in to confirm you're not a bot". Discord has started to become absurdly aggressive with it too, to the point that they don't even let you load messages whilst logged in if you're on a VPN. It really makes me feel like there will be an inflection point in a few years, where the internet is cleaved in two. You'll have the 'free' internet that is full of interesting stuff but also full of malware, spam and scams, and you'll have the squeaky clean corporate internet, basically a facsimile of WeChat's super-app, of which you'll only have access with a government ID. No VPNs or anti-fingerprinting allowed.
- galaxy_gas 10mo agoFor Discord it is basic rate limiting ( anty-VPN is other separate thing require phone number ) There a bunch of bad actors doing mass scrape of all public server and history via all of those VPN
- immibis 10mo agoit's already like that
- Eduard 10mo ago> It really makes me feel like there will be an inflection point in a few years, where the internet is cleaved in two. Hasn't it been like that for already many years? arguably, already 90's AOL very much pushed its users to stay within its walled garden.
- mikestorrent 10mo ago100%. Web Credentials + Digital ID + age verification will all be handled with Secure Attestation backing it. Cloudflare will have a checkbox for site admins... [X] Require Age Verification... and that's it. Boom. Your site is "safe" from accidentally allowing kids in. ...of course, free speech and anonymity die with this, but why would that be a problem? You don't want to say anything the current or potential future government wouldn't like, do you?
- jcalvinowens 10mo agoYT works pretty flawlessly for me with firefox on debian. What's the issue you're seeing?
- therein 10mo agoIf you are blocking ads now, the videos will start in a very delayed fashion almost as if the server is waiting the length expected for the ad to take before streaming you any bytes.
- ciberado 10mo agoSame here. Still, I prefer to wait instead of suffering those aggressive ads.
- wvh 10mo agoI've seen that too, but it's still better than somebody yelling in your face about toilet paper.
- kotaKat 10mo agoThe worst part is if someone doesn’t put 2+2 together and starts blaming their ISP for poor load issues because their Youtube “keeps buffering” because of this continue cat-and-mouse game messing with the player client. I do not enjoy having to troubleshoot “Youtube isn’t working” calls where it’s because of this adblock ‘protection’ bullshit. It’s just as bad as Ad-Shield’s bullshit “an error occured loading this page” — no, the page loaded just fine until your malware decided to dump the CSS and hijack my pageload to some “error-report.com” website to tell me my adblocker did it.
- velcrovan 10mo agoI use it on Firefox and Safari on Mac OS (mainly Safari), and it's been OK except it's started doing a thing where it blips a bit after roughly the first 1sec of video plays. I wonder if being a YouTube Premium subscriber is also a factor here. I do pay for it so I don't see ads. But maybe the way ads are being served/injected has changed things for the worse for people that get them.
- RHSeeger 10mo agoInteresting. I use Firefox and it works flawlessly for me. I wonder if it's a computing power thing?
- rajamaka 10mo agoI am constantly having serious issues running YouTube (Pentium II, IE3, Windows SQL Server 2003)
- plugger 10mo agoI use Firefox + uBlock Origin on both Linux (Debian 12) and on Android to watch Youtube without ads and it works without issue.