Latest consensus is that YouTube performance issues seem to be Adblock Plus' fault.

That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

I think part of the problem is that we refer to these as “ad blockers” so AdBlock is the first one people find when they look.

Yeah we should start calling them ublockers

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