YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
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Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled

Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

Zuberi 👀
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Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.

and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?

But brave is based con Chrome.V8

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Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)

FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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“Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.

That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.

OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.

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Same here. uBO + Firefox

If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me

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That’s a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn’t on google but the extensions themselves.

Zuberi 👀
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Source?

I have post history of going through their JS, this is a Google-sucks thing, full stop.

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uBO Dev already shared it in the twitter thread but here you go

https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1725604837

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