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[deriks]

I watch a lot of YouTube, mostly on my TV and second close on Chrome with my generous good PC. From past week or I noticed a slower version of the app, but that doesn't make any sense

My TV is not the best nor either my PC. Still, playing Prime Video, HBO Max, Netflix or whatever, on both of them works fine, not YouTube

Is just with me?

Edit: Premium subscriber too, so no Ad-blockers

 

[SJRB]

If you use an adblocker, Youtube is actively throttling your speed just to fuck with you.

YouTube is slowing down load times for users with ad block

People who access YouTube with an ad blocker could face significantly slower load times

www.androidpolice.com

 

[winjer]

Could be just Google slowing down speeds for regular users, to force them to upgrade to premium.
Similar to how they decreased 1080p quality during the pandemic, and now are charging for 1080p Enhanced Bitrate.

 

[AJUMP23]

You tube does not like you specifically.

 

[Kilau]

If you use an adblocker, Youtube is actively throttling your speed just to fuck with you.

YouTube is slowing down load times for users with ad block

People who access YouTube with an ad blocker could face significantly slower load times

www.androidpolice.com

Fuck Google

 

[SidViscous]

If you use an adblocker, Youtube is actively throttling your speed just to fuck with you.

YouTube is slowing down load times for users with ad block

People who access YouTube with an ad blocker could face significantly slower load times

www.androidpolice.com

if you are blocking the ads you are not freeloading but costing them money, running costs are pretty high for video streaming platforms. So can’t really hate them for this

 

[deriks]

If you use an adblocker, Youtube is actively throttling your speed just to fuck with you.

YouTube is slowing down load times for users with ad block

People who access YouTube with an ad blocker could face significantly slower load times

www.androidpolice.com

Not using. Actually, I have YouTube Premium, so still doesn't make sense

 

[nkarafo]

if you are blocking the ads you are not freeloading but costing them money, running costs are pretty high for video streaming platforms. So can’t really hate them for this

There's a difference between a sane amount of ads and Youtube ads. Most preople didn't block them until Youtube decided to make the site literally unsusable for non premium users.

So yeah i can hate them for this.

 

[SidViscous]

There's a difference between a sane amount of ads and Youtube ads. Most preople didn't block them until Youtube decided to make the site literally unsusable for non premium users.

So yeah i can hate them for this.

Devils advocate, but how will they offset the increasing cost of users using Adblock without increasing the number of ads shown to non-blocking users?

It’s easy to be angry but there isn’t really a good solution other than prevent anybody with adblockers from watching videos, or increasing revenue from other users. But both options make the same folks mad..

 

[winjer]

 

[BossLackey]

I'm in the same exact boat as you. Premium, no Ad-blocker, multiple devices, fast/good connection.

It feels very sluggish.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Make sure you disable Ad blocker on YouTube, even if you have Premium. That worked for me.

 

[ShadowLag]

The whole site is fucked for me. It's like my GPU drivers are crashing or something; hovering over the timeline to skip through videos takes literal seconds for it to even move the little dot, before downloading anything. Every clickable action is delayed by ~1-2 seconds too. Eventually it will decide to show video, and the video will be very choppy.

 

[Spyxos]

The whole site is fucked for me. It's like my GPU drivers are crashing or something; hovering over the timeline to skip through videos takes literal seconds for it to even move the little dot, before downloading anything. Every clickable action is delayed by ~1-2 seconds too. Eventually it will decide to show video, and the video will be very choppy.

Exactly the same for me.

 

[nush]

Can confirm this is true, for me. It hangs even if there's a lot of buffered video. I just switch browsers.

 

[Ownage]

Could be just Google slowing down speeds for regular users, to force them to upgrade to premium.
Similar to how they decreased 1080p quality during the pandemic, and now are charging for 1080p Enhanced Bitrate.

DuckDuckGo is much faster than Chrome, as some folks know and previously have said. Give it a try.

 

[winjer]

DuckDuckGo is much faster than Chrome, as some folks know and previously have said. Give it a try.

I was talking about youtube.

 

[Kamina]

Could be just Google slowing down speeds for regular users, to force them to upgrade to premium.
Similar to how they decreased 1080p quality during the pandemic, and now are charging for 1080p Enhanced Bitrate.

Probably this. Having no issues with premium on the PS5 app

 

[winjer]

For people with issues, open "Stats for nerds" and check the "buffer health" for how many seconds you have cached.

 

[Spyxos]

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again

Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled

www.tomsguide.com

 

[MidGenRefresh]

This might also help. Clearing cache and hard reload of a webpage in Chrome:

1. Open the Website you want to clear in the cache
2. Press Ctrl + F5
3. Or use the Developer Tools by pressing F12. Once the chrome dev tools are open, just right click on the refresh button and a menu will drop down. This menu gives you the option of doing a hard refresh.

 

[Kacho]

I have YouTube premium and had the same issue, it was driving me crazy. Thought my PC had a virus. Disabling adblocking on the site did the trick.

 

[ReBurn]

I haven't noticed slowness. I use the app on my iPad mostly.

 

[BeforeU]

I have premium and I feel the slowdown too. I thought it was my laptop, it becomes a bit laggy

 

[Dacvak]

I haven’t noticed anything slower, but I have noticed that they keep reducing my bitrate on mobile, even though my default is set to the highest.

 

[Ownage]

I was talking about youtube.

Right. Visit YouTube via DDG, not Chrome. It's much faster.

 

[winjer]

Right. Visit YouTube via DDG, not Chrome. It's much faster.

I use Brave with UBlock Origin, and it's working perfectly.

 

[Urban]

i read on internet that its a problem with Adblock Plus and there was a bug.
I had the same issues. Chrome + Adblock Plus was nearly unusuable on my PC. Switched to Firefox + Ublock and dont have any issues anymore

 

[Mithos]

For people with issues, open "Stats for nerds" and check the "buffer health" for how many seconds you have cached.

Never had so "good" buffer as right now. 40-45seconds.
Normally it have been 15 seconds at best.

The best times where before the new streaming tech though(years and tears ago), when you could press PLAY, then PAUSE, and when you came back from getting something to drink the entire VIDEO was buffered locally.

ANYWAYS...
Videos randomly freeze a second or so ONLY the video, not the audio (in the first 30 seconds of a video) on youtube for me in Firefox, and have been doing so for a month or two.

 

[22:22:22]

Yes. But just since a day or 2. Did some resets and now it's fine for the moment at least (on ps5 app)

 

[Laptop1991]

Another tactic that won't work, i also use Brave and U block origin as Winjer and have no slow down's, and works fine, but if it does start becoming unwatchable and slow, i simply won't use Youtube and use Rumble or another service, what a waste of time, Youtube with ads playing over the content or for quite a while before what u want to watch just makes you switch off anyway!

 

[Scotty W]

 

[thief183]

I'm worried that the majority of ppl will just give up and pay or watch 2/3 ads every video. As for now, Block origin is doing alright, and revanced is working great for my phone.

 

[Hudo]

Good, I hope Youtube and Google will get even more hardcore with their measures so that people start using other platforms.

 

[winjer]

Good, I hope Youtube and Google will get even more hardcore with their measures so that people start using other platforms.

That is the thing that youtube is forgetting. They are competing with many other forms of entertainment.
Not only video streaming. But also videogames, books, sports, social media, etcs.
If youtube becomes to annoying to use, people will just go and do or watch something else.

 

[Hudo]

people will just go and do or watch something else.

Happened to me during the first week when Youtube decided to "fight back" and ublock wasn't working properly. Their ad policy is so fucking aggressive that it makes Youtube unusable without any ad-blocking, imho. And so I stopped visiting that site for a week or so until people said that ublock was working again with Youtube.

It was very easy to just stop going there.

 

[EverydayBeast]

YouTube fell on their face with the ads acting like it’s a television show, I get the pop up ads but 3+ min ads is way over the line.

 

[Clear]

Seemed to me the problem was specifically with Adblock plus. Try a different adblocker.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

not on my TV but on the desktop.

 

[The Skull]

I fucking knew something was up. Absolute cunts.

 

[cash_longfellow]

The ads got longer, that’s for damn sure.

 

[jshackles]

Select instance - Invidious

Find an instance nearest to you

Watch whatever you want without ads or stupid bullshit

Bonus round: run a private Invidious instance yourself using docker, so you don't have to rely on others to host.

 

[Mistake]

Select instance - Invidious

Find an instance nearest to you

Watch whatever you want without ads or stupid bullshit

Bonus round: run a private Invidious instance yourself using docker, so you don't have to rely on others to host.

This is what my desktop application FreeTube uses. Rarely it will have a few issues, but otherwise solid. The multiple profiles need to be fixed, because whenever I sub to something on profile 2, it goes on profile 1 as well, so I can't make separate stuff for news or entertainment

 

[LordOfChaos]

 

[deoxxys]

I just noticed it being really slow to full screen

 

[Pop]

I was using Adblocker for youtube, which they made load times super slow. Switched to uBlock and all is good again. No slowdowns

 

[March Climber]

The mobile app still works great. They're so adamant about winning this stupid adblock war that my phone is performing twice as good as my high end PC.

 

[Spyxos]

Youtube has become sooo slow now, it's almost unusable. Not only are the videos themselves extra slow and sluggish, but even if you want to reply to the comments, almost the entire computer becomes slow. And when you leave youtube, everything else is instantly lightning fast again.

 

[DeepEnigma]

If you use an adblocker, Youtube is actively throttling your speed just to fuck with you.

YouTube is slowing down load times for users with ad block

People who access YouTube with an ad blocker could face significantly slower load times

www.androidpolice.com

They also throttle specific channels or videos from time to time. Especially if you wrong think.

 

[Paltheos]

This has become a news item that's really only relevant if slowdowns persist for a long time by virtue of add-on developers giving up fighting. Otherwise this will stay a tug of war where sometimes you get clean service and sometimes youtube runs like molasses. No point in doomsaying otherwise - Just a reality of the service now.