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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave

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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
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YouTube recently started slowing down its entire site whenever ad blockers are used. A new wave of slowdowns is hitting...
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      I wish Mozilla would add the ability to set User-Agent for the different containers they offer in Firefox with their addon. Would be sweet to set it to Chrome in my YouTube container only.

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        How do I learn what you’re talking about LoL. Any helpful YouTube channels?

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          Not the person you replied to, but I just searched for “User-Agent changer” and then installed the Firefox extension that it found. When I set it to pretend to be Windows/Chrome my Youtube tabs went back to snappy and responsive.

          (link to the one I found: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/)

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            Holy smokes that did the trick. Not that longer loading times were bothering me too much, (It’s still less time wasted than ads) but damn it feels nice to load smoothly again.

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            Thanks I’ll check that out.

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      Problem is, it shows the internet that there id a higher share of chromium browsers.
      Which is bad.

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          Because most people will apply it globally and will forget about it at some point.

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      So does Invidious

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