Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

Judex Meus said:
I might be super late to this but has anyone noticed severe RAM usage with YT tabs? Especially if you're playing a playlist. I've hit +2 GB on a tab with a playlist only containing a couple dozen videos. Even regular videos take up a few hundred megabytes but I don't know how long it's been like that.
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Years ago, I had this issue with Firefox on Windows where FF's RAM usage would hit 3GB+ on the regular. At the time it was a FF problem rather than a YT problem, solved by rolling back to an earlier version of FF.
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
Streamers complain all the time of Chrome freezing on them when it's their youtube tab taking up all their RAM.
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You know the YT pajeets have fucked up more royally than usual when even the official Google browser is getting BTFO'ed by YT's memory usage.
 
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Ublock origin user here on firefox.

I have noticed that in these few days on firefox I am seeing the 5 second fake buffers on YT, It's exactly like the one described here. Apparently the ADblockers found a fix over that as well and is about to implement it? I don't know when will the fix roll out for ublock because it has not on my end.

Oddly enough Kiwi browser is unaffected despite I have both Tampermonkey Ublock Origin and Kiwi itself has an adblocker, regardless of browser, I never saw the three strikes thing after I disabled certain settings, forgot what it is (this was half a year by the way).

YT needs either a mass exodus, a full blown ban on adblocker get arounds per UN/EU law or a Twitter-esque far right takeover sooner or later (Oddly enough one of the few good things Musk did was to fire all the pajeets and fully personalize all twitter feeds on your end). If something doesn't change drastically now the Pajeets might actually come out to the top with the adblockers having no solution against them.
 
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Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
Ublock origin user here on firefox.

I have noticed that in these few days on firefox I am seeing the 5 second fake buffers on YT, It's exactly like the one described here.
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The same thing started happening to me yesterday on LibreWolf with uBO, though in my case it's more like 10 seconds.

Considering how much of the anti-adblock fuckery I've managed to avoid on my desktop over the past few months, it makes sense that my good fortune would run out eventually.
 
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New issue with yt-dlp, from github:
Yep, it seems that youtube is rolling something out that causes the ios HLS segment requests to yield 403 errors.

This means that the ios client is no longer viable at all, and that the "enhanced bitrate" 1080p video format 616 will soon no longer be available via yt-dlp. (Though its http equivalent format 356 should still be available if you actually have Youtube Premium and pass your logged-in cookies to yt-dlp).

The workaround for users is to add this to your yt-dlp command/config:

Code: 
--extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default,-ios"

The developer solution is to remove ios as a default client.
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It was also added to the known issues.
 
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Am I the only one that barely feels like the comments are made by actual human beings? I know that a good chunk of them are but there are comment sections where it feels like the equivalent of watching those videos of two AIs "talking" to each other and it just gives an uncanny feeling.

They feel off and it keeps getting worse from there. Bots, AIs, its all illusion of human engagement.

Moments like this remind you the Dead Internet theory isnt a theory and with AIs sadly destined to become more present, you will not be able to trust what you see and read on the internet less than ever. Its kind of depressing actually, especially to those that had the internet as a special place away from the world's nonsense. The internet, at least a version of it worth engaging at all, might have its days counted.

Edit: When I think about it, forums of old like Kiwifarms might truly be the few places where you can be assured you are speaking to actual human beings, especially if you can properly say slurs (since nearly all bots and AIs are program to not say it)

Dirty Harry said:
I'm getting the buffers on youtube also, due to ublock origin...

What is a good youtuber ripper these days to use?
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The usual suspects you can find on this thread, we mention them all the time.

https://cobalt.tools/ is a good one for browsers.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Am I the only one that barely feels like the comments are made by actual human beings? I know that a good chunk of them are but there are comment sections where it feels like the equivalent of watching those videos of two AIs "talking" to each other and it just gives an uncanny feeling.

They feel off and it keeps getting worse from there. Bots, AIs, its all illusion of human engagement.

Moments like this remind you the Dead Internet theory isnt a theory and with AIs sadly destined to become more present, you will not be able to trust what you see and read on the internet less than ever. Its kind of depressing actually, especially to those that had the internet as a special place away from the world's nonsense. The internet, at least a version of it worth engaging at all, might have its days counted.
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Hey, I get why it feels that way—comment sections can be uncanny, repetitive, or just plain weird sometimes. But the idea that the internet is mostly run by bots or AI, like the Dead Internet Theory claims, doesn’t really hold up under scrutiny.


First, it's important to remember: the internet has always had low-effort, spammy, or bizarre content. Go back to the early 2000s—forums were full of trolls, copypasta, and flame wars. What we’re seeing now isn’t so much evidence of a “dead internet” but the result of scale and increased participation. Billions of people online means more noise, more algorithmic surfacing of low-quality content, and yes, more bots—but not a full AI takeover.


Also, many of those "off" comments you’re seeing are often from real people, just ones using broken English, rushing responses, or posting for engagement. It’s easy to assume it’s all fake, but that’s a classic case of confirmation bias. We notice the weird or robotic ones more and ignore the mountain of normal, thoughtful content that still exists.


As for AI-generated content—yes, it's increasing, but that doesn’t mean everything is AI. Most of what’s posted is still made by humans, even if it's influenced by algorithms or trends. The real issue is algorithmic homogenization, not total automation. That’s a design flaw of platforms, not evidence that the net is run by a shadowy cabal of LLMs.


So no, the internet isn’t “dead.” It’s messy, flawed, noisy—but also full of real people, creativity, and value. If it feels alien sometimes, that says more about how we experience content in 2025 than it does about a grand AI conspiracy.


Let’s not confuse frustration with complexity for evidence of a mass deception.

Yeah, I fed your post into ChatGPT and told it be an obnoxious AI. I'm a real person and to prove it: nigger faggot kike.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Am I the only one that barely feels like the comments are made by actual human beings? I know that a good chunk of them are but there are comment sections where it feels like the equivalent of watching those videos of two AIs "talking" to each other and it just gives an uncanny feeling.

They feel off and it keeps getting worse from there. Bots, AIs, its all illusion of human engagement.
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I haven't left a comment on any videos in 2 years or more because my comments kept being deleted. It's possible the only things allowed to leave comments are bots.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Am I the only one that barely feels like the comments are made by actual human beings? I know that a good chunk of them are but there are comment sections where it feels like the equivalent of watching those videos of two AIs "talking" to each other and it just gives an uncanny feeling.

They feel off and it keeps getting worse from there. Bots, AIs, its all illusion of human engagement.
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That would be Reddit, for the most part.

But being serious, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Am I the only one that barely feels like the comments are made by actual human beings? I know that a good chunk of them are but there are comment sections where it feels like the equivalent of watching those videos of two AIs "talking" to each other and it just gives an uncanny feeling.

They feel off and it keeps getting worse from there. Bots, AIs, its all illusion of human engagement.

Moments like this remind you the Dead Internet theory isnt a theory and with AIs sadly destined to become more present, you will not be able to trust what you see and read on the internet less than ever. Its kind of depressing actually, especially to those that had the internet as a special place away from the world's nonsense. The internet, at least a version of it worth engaging at all, might have its days counted.

Edit: When I think about it, forums of old like Kiwifarms might truly be the few places where you can be assured you are speaking to actual human beings, especially if you can properly say slurs (since nearly all bots and AIs are program to not say it)



The usual suspects you can find on this thread, we mention them all the time.

https://cobalt.tools/ is a good one for browsers.
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I've only felt that way once because I saw a video about finance, and in the comments were bots shilling shitcoins, and below that would be hundreds of replies about how "Yes Mr. Smith's Cryptocurrency has helped me immensely with my finances and I highly recommend him!"
Everything else besides that is the same stupid fucking reddit """joke""" comments copypasted 6 trillion times over to get worthless updoots. You can't say "AI is shitting up the 'Net" when Reddit comments are proof you don't need to be an AI to be an NPC.
 
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Dirty Harry said:
I'm getting the buffers on youtube also, due to ublock origin...

What is a good youtuber ripper these days to use?
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Oh hey, now it's on Brave!

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I ain't giving a dime to google. I'm not watching their ads which will just waste my time, and I am not buying the shitty advertised products. Yeah, I ain't being gaslit into not having ads.
 
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Something from uBlock issues has been folded into the 'quick-fixes' option so check to see if you have that enabled and see if it has un-cucked YT again for now.

Because it uses the 'trusted-replace-outbound-text' (specifically the 'trusted-' portion) you cannot just slap it into your 'My Filters' so just enable the quick-fixes filter list.
Code: 
www.youtube.com##+js(trusted-replace-outbound-text, JSON.stringify, "clientScreen":"WATCH", "clientScreen":"ADUNIT", condition, contentPlaybackContext)
 
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Remember how I found out that YT can do caching on one's drive, even if one is browsing in private browsing with caching disabled? Turns out it doesn't do that if the vid is being played in an embed on another site. So for example, this vid shouldn't do any caching on the drive, at least if it's running in private browsing with caching disabled:

"Asdfmovie 10 - Is this YOU ?!"
 
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The handsome tard said:
Im editing a video and I needed something for the background and here it is, I cant fucking use it

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On the risk of sounding MATI, fuck Youtube and all street shitters in it
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They will figure it out. Yt-dlp works for me for now, so maybe you should try it too.
 
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