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[email protected] : Has anyone else never had an single issue with YouTube on Firefox with adblockers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube has worked fine for me using Firefox with Ublock Origin, with no lag, notifications telling me to turn off ad blocking, or any of the other issues users have reported here.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Great timing, I was literally just dealing with YouTube problems. I have YouTube Premium and uBlock off for YouTube, it's still oddly slow. I just cleared all my browser data and it seems to have helped a bit, but earlier the YouTube tab literally took 3 minutes to even begin to load with the CPU pegged at 100% the whole time. I have gigabit fiber, it should be pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My FF+UBO has some minor hicups like sometimes I need to refresh to get the video to play as it just sits on a black screen (dark mode) with a spinning circle, that is my only issue and usually only once every few days. Oddly enough on Chrome (I use different browsers for different tasks) yesterday when I tried to start a stream the page refused to load, when it mostly did 2 panels would not load, when I went to reuse settings from a previous stream the entire page was missing all the info, after a reboot and 10 mins it finally worked.

Edit: For some reason I did not think to check my cpu usage so can't say if I was at 100% or what

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I have youtube premium but never turn ublock off and I've almost never had any issues. I mostly watch youtube on MacOS, but Windows or Linux (not signed in) I've almost never had issues with it. Maybe try turning it on?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Doesn't make a difference, it was hanging before the point where it would even try to load ad domains. It was kind of weird.

Like, you'd click YouTube from bookmark and it would peg the CPU for seconds and sometimes minutes while still displaying the new tab page. Once the white background of YouTube would pop finally it took about 10-15 seconds to load.

I think the cache might have been utterly borked.