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YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled (old.reddit.com)

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 106 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deur@feddit.nl 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not. They are not logged in or some shit.

YT premium works great.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I have premium and am logged in. I get the stalls. It's also a new experience. I also have to manually adjust quality to get better than squareville.

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe this for a minute. Why would anyone trust this?

[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

🤷‍♂️

It's not.

You think you'd be on here and not see 40 posts of people screeching that YT is serving ads to premium users?

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know a single person who has ever paid for YouTube premium, and would consider anyone who does to be a mark. And I'm certain that, for a variety of reasons, the userbase of this place are very unlikely to use premium.

So no, I don't think I would have heard about that

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Premium user here. Sorry I'm outside of your bubble. Unfortunately, there still is good reason to have it right now. At least for those in my circle.

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Paying for something that adblockers and workarounds give you for free makes you a mark.

Google isn't my friend and they don't deserve my money. I'm sure "your circle" is very prestigious and hard to deceive though

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 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.

[–] nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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

[–] Darkwatch00@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Only way I watch YouTube is with Vanced app. This is getting ridiculous though.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 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...

[–] Compactor9679@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago

You are the damn problem, screw you

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Apparently, this time it wasn't on Youtube. Rather some users are still using AB/ABP, and there's a bug in those that affects a lot of content, not just Youtube.

[+] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world -44 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, you don't make them or creators money. You arent the customer, you are a free loader who costs them money.

Deal with it or God forbid pay.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

I support the creators by buying merchandise and supporting Kickstarter etc. and others support using Patreon.

With those miniscule amounts Google pays to their creators (except the top 0.01%) I estimate that what I have brought is equal to 100-1000x of what they would have gotten from ads. And I'm no saint at supporting, there's people giving 100x more than me.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YouTube's greedy decisions are pulling me away from YouTube and towards the creator-owned Nebula platform. It's fairly inexpensive, I'm supporting creators and not Google, and there are no ads.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Tldr business did a video on their inckne sources, Nebula views get them much more money per view than YT. However YT is still their main income. I really hope Nebula picks up more popularity

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Get out of here Susan, I’m not paying for premium.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't give a fuck about Google's bottom line