Latest consensus is that YouTube performance issues seem to be Adblock Plus' fault.

That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

    • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      43·
      9 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’ text on top of the search result when looking for an adblock and go " why an adblock would advertise itself on search engines? 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
        21·
        9 months ago

        Adblock Plus was the only decent adblocker available for Internet Explorer 11 a couple of years ago. Only reason I used it.

        • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
          20·
          9 months ago

          I’m not sure you know what a couple is. Also, arguing with IE of all browsers is not going to make a strong case either.

          • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            9 months ago

            Point at the case, because mine was an affirmation that it wasn’t good as I reluctantly used it.

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
      16·
      9 months ago

      I think part of the problem is that we refer to these as “ad blockers” so AdBlock is the first one people find when they look.

  • Newtra@pawb.social
    39·
    9 months ago

    The funny thing is that YouTube’s code is already so laggy that we all believed this without a second thought.

  • BurningRiver@beehaw.org
    12·
    9 months ago

    Just stay off YouTube for a fucking month. Or even a week. If the traffic plummets, then we win. Why’s it so hard to understand this?

    Hell, make it one day where nobody uses YouTube.

    • _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
      5·
      9 months ago

      If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.

    • pup_atlas@pawb.social
      1·
      9 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.