• zurohki@aussie.zone
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    10 months ago

    The best part is, no matter how terrible they make Youtube with adblock, they still can’t get it as bad as Youtube without adblock.

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    10 months ago

    Yeah and the worst shit is its happening to me and I have goddamn youtube premium so it wouldnt be showing me ads anyway.

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      10 months ago

      Guess that’s your signal to unsubscribe if the premium experience is this bad. Hit Google where it hurts the most.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Hmm, that would explain the issues I’ve been having. The odd thing to me is that there’s no feedback provided to let the user know that this is a response to adblock. I assumed that there were just technical problems somewhere.

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    10 months ago

    I haven’t had any issues with slow buffering yet, but I have experienced something different: Sometimes the video playback suddenly stops altogether in the middle and throws me out of the video completely. I suspect that an ad is supposed to be played in this particular part of the video. I have to re-start playing the video from the part where it threw me out. Sometimes this happens several times in the same video.

    I use the latest Firefox in combination with uBlock Origin (also always up-to-date).

    Edit: typos

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Looking forward to finally quitting youtube. My quality of life is gonna improve.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I am a premium member but over the last week or so my YouTube videos suddenly started to take an eternity (5-10 seconds) to start playing when they were near instant before. Does YouTube assume I have an ad blocker? I have no Chrome Extensions and no deliberately installed Ad Blockers on Win 11. Going to play around with it tomorrow to see if I can determine what is going on.

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      10 months ago

      I have pihole and premium. I get a lot of buffer stalls too. Started recently. But they’re also updating the Android app every couple weeks, so I assumed they are screwing things all up out of incompetence.

      This must be some exec’s hard focus right now. What a tool.

      • yabai@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I’m in the same boat, wondered what was up with this weird buffering that I’ve never had before. Guess I’ll white-list YouTube ads…