That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.
The funny thing is that YouTube’s code is already so laggy that we all believed this without a second thought.
YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug
Submitted 11 months ago by PonyOfWar@pawb.social to technology@beehaw.org
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Newtra@pawb.social 11 months ago
Plume@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Skill issues. uBlock Origin.
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Just stay off YouTube for a fucking month. Of even a week. If the traffic plummets, then we win. Why’s it so hard to understand this?
_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 11 months ago
If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.
plastictoast@venera.social 11 months ago
Was understood that Beehaw is the nice corner of the fediwebz?
Attachment: venera.social ↗princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Is swearing itself inherently not nice? Shit…
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I wasn’t swearing at anyone. Was my reply wrong? The only way tech companies tech take notice is if people don’t use their services when they’re unhappy with it.
pup_atlas@pawb.social 11 months ago
That would be a dream come true for Youtube. Think about how that would affect them financially, they would be serving significantly less load, but they would still rake in all those Youtube premium subscriptions. It would effectively be campaigning to remove the users who aren’t monetized from the platform.
Tugboater203@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm getting a 1m33s video saying the content isn't available. FF for Android and Ublock Origin
MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I’m getting the same issues but with Firefox + uBlockOrigin
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
Haha!
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Turning off the ad blocker immediately improves loading performance, with the white line on YouTube’s progress bar showing significantly more buffering runway. Users report that the ad-block detection causes strange issues, like “lag” that makes full screen or comments not work or Chrome being unable to load other webpages while YouTube is open. The company previously has been showing pop-up messages saying ad blockers violate YouTube terms of service. But the slowdowns may be a big accident from ad blockers altering YouTube’s code: Adblock Plus has published a bug report covering “performance issues” introduced by version 3.22 and says things should be fixed in version 3.22.1. uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill says the issue is limited to AdBlock Plus and its spinoffs and that blaming YouTube is “an incorrect diagnosis.” The straightforward thing would be to show more of these pop-ups and not send people on a wild goose chase after fake technical issues. This post was updated on January 15 at 4:20 pm ET with Adblock Plus’ bug report information and developer Raymond Hill’s statement. — Saved 54% of original text.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
If employing an adblocker is “altering YouTube’s code” then opening the wrapper on a Snicker’s bar is “altering Snicker’s product.” The code runs on my device, I get to say how and when and whyfor. It’s akin to receiving something in the mail… I now own that copy and can do with it what I wish pursuant to all relevant laws.
CookieManTheGreat@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Ah so its the idiots still using non ublock
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Normies still be using anything other than ublock :( when will they learn
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Anyone and Everyone with the slightest of computer knowledge but paid shills are plugging ublock origin everywhere and anywhere they can and yet, people still choose other garbages. You’d think that maybe they’ll see that tiny sponsored result text on top of the search result when looking for an adblock and go " why an adblock would show ads to use it. this reeks of garbage, data siphoning bullshit adblock " but no, they even go as far as to defend it. I can’t even bother with these people anymore.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Adblock Plus was the only decent adblocker available for Internet Explorer 11 a couple of years ago. Only reason I used it.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I miss when people trusted nerds instead of corporations. Applies to a variety of fields.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I think part of the problem is that we refer to these as “ad blockers” so AdBlocker is the first one people find when they look.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah we should start calling them ublockers
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
No ublock for Safari, which, yeah, is Apple’s fault for being dicks, but it still sucks.