• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It’s gotten to the point where I have to re-load each YT tab three times before the video ever starts playing - only because I use uBlock.

    Still better than watching ads, but it is getting annoying.

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      7 days ago

      I have a theory that YT deliberately makes you wait the length an ad would have been if you have uBlock Origin installed. Ive just let it “buffer” for 30 seconds or so and it will eventually load the video.

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      7 days ago

      I have the same problem, and after you start clicking play, often you can wait it out and the video will eventually play on its own after 10-15 seconds

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      It is like they know you’re using adblocks, so instead of trying to force ads down your throat, they try making your experience miserable by breaking their own viewer or whatever. It is absolutely petty of them.

      Leave a video sitting there in idle for too long, come back, it plays for 10 seconds then has to reload itself. Sometimes, it doesn’t do this, so it requires a complete refresh.

      They can do this bullshit all they want but I am not letting up on blocking ads.

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      7 days ago

      For me, it works without reloading… After a 15 second load and an insufferably laggy UI despite having no identifiable system bottleneck.

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        7 days ago

        Yeah yt is basically unusable on Firefox with a blocker and it’s 100% by design. Yt even gives a helpful pop-up offering to tell me why it’s running so slow.

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      7 days ago

      I switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don’t have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore. Other than that, MS Edge works exactly like Chrome.