2y ago

Latest Adblock update causes massive YouTube performance hit

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Update 1/16 - Adblock has informed BleepingComputer that its engineers fixed the problem and released ABP 3.22.1 and AB 5.17.1 on the Opera and Edge extension stores. The same versions are currently in review on the Mozilla and Chrome add-on stores, and should be made available soon.

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People are still using Adblock?
I thought we moved to uBlock Origin several years ago...
- https://xkcd.com/1053/
  It's always fun when I can recommend something better to friends, especially when the new thing requires no new compromises
  Adblock plus --> uBlock Origin
  LastPass --> Bitwarden
  uTorrent --> qBitorrent
  
  ktorrent and keepassXC are better for me.
  
  1Password is pretty good, too.
  
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- Does ublock origin even work with chrome on YouTube anymore? I switched to Firefox a couple months ago because, even after updating ublock origin, YouTube still detected that I was using an ad blocker and refused to show me content.
  
  Clear the filter cache on ublock origin, and update the filters to the latest ones, should work
  
  Yes.
  
  It does still work, but YouTube is often pushing breaking changes multiple times per week. It's really an arms race.
I think you mean:
Latest YouTube update causes massive performance hit.
YouTube causes the performance hit. Not the ad blockers. If ads weren't creating such big performance hits by themselves, folks wouldn't all need to use ad blockers.
Until Youtube no longer loads period with an ad blocker people will still use them and even then people will find back doors to prevent the firehose of ads Google wants to subject you to. They wanted a monopoly and now they are big mad they have to deal with the consequences of that decision
- I don't know why anyone even uses the YouTube app. Newpipe has always worked for me and I've never seen an ad once and always can watch in whatever resolution I want.
  
  Yeah newpipe is so good its not even close. Play in the background feature with custom playlists without needing an account is just the best.
laughs in Piped
Sorry - smugness isn't nice. But I don't know why people are still trying to use Youtube directly, when there are clearly much better options.
- iPhone users don't have the option of a convenient app, though I understand brave browser can work. Either way android users have an easier time blocking ads then Iphone users. I pay for YouTube family so my kids and the TV can avoid ads.
  
  I dont know much about this topic, I just seem to recall a post on the front page of my lemmy app a while ago saying to NEVER use brave as it was a scam. Is there truth to this?
- It may depend on location but I get awful long buffering times with piped.
  
  Yeah, it could be. I host my own instance of Piped, and it feels like pretty much the same experience as if I were browsing YT directly.
- Laughs in Invidious (docker container) 😎
YouTube trying to prevent ad blockers is like Nintendo trying to prevent homebrew on the 3ds.
It's not gonna happen.
- That's a bold statement since they own the stream we're watching from
  If they embed the ads, and block things like sponsoblock from working, it'll get pretty hard to filter them.
  I pay for premium, but I watch a LOT of YT and listen to a lot YT music so I don't mind paying ATM.
  
  Embedding ads into the stream would be hard to counter, but it's far away. That would invalidate caches along the way and need extra performance to reencode the stream with the ads inserted.
  That's extra costs that are hopefully orders of magnitude above the lost ad revenue from ad blockers
Wait, so it wasn’t even YouTube doing it? 🤣
I can attest it is very weird. The entire browser slows down on transition to full screen (lags like your machine has a virus or something) and introduces a buffer wheel of lag after the first 10 or so seconds of every video.

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