Gondola Enjoyer
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- Joined
- Mar 11, 2022
Youtube streams went from fine, to freezing every 5-10 seconds and then never resuming until I got youtube enhancer on Firefox and toggled this bad boy.I'm glad it's not just me; at first I had assumed it was another side effect of some recent move to target adblockers. Streams were entirely unwatchable in Brave due to constant buffering and high CPU usage.
My entertainment PC has a 5900X, and this thing loves to run. It will use all the power you give it, to go as fast as it can, unless you specifically ask it not to. The upshot is that it makes a good "piece of shit software" detector - if a game or general purpose software chokes while the CPU has its foot to the firewall, odds are there's an optimization issue.
I switched over to viewing in Firefox with a NoScript/Greasemonkey combo for adblock and streams still hiccup a lot, but it's more like a bunch of tiny intermittent hiccups as opposed to staring at a buffer icon most of the time. It doesn't peg my CPU either.
And also uninstalled LiveTL because it had a fuckhueg memory leak and other issues.