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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users?

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Is Google deliberately slowing down the buffering of videos on YouTube for visitors who use an ad blocker?
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    Comment from a ublock developer on this:

    There is a lot of chatter in the last days about how Youtube is slow with content blockers. Those performance issues affect only the latest version of both Adblock Plus (3.22) & AdBlock (5.17), and afflict more than just Youtube. uBO is not affected.

    https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

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      I didn’t realize people still used AdBlock Plus, or that it even still existed.

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      So it’s not YouTube doing it?

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