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derpherp2 said:
Ok looked into it a bit more apparently it isn't adblockers at all but youtube. The issue can snowball hard enough to bluescreen apparently.
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It has to be, I use uBlock and it's happening to me. I can't even run a video and do anything in another tab now because of it, and my computer is pretty old, but it was never this bad before Monday.
 
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cactus said:
It has to be, I use uBlock and it's happening to me. I can't even run a video and do anything in another tab now because of it, and my computer is pretty old, but it was never this bad before Monday.
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I think it might be both, but yeah youtube is being wonky again for me. It's so ba my computer fucking crashhes because of thiis shit
 
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Here's my CPU graphs in task manager. Set to fast, so each chart is 30 seconds. System is a Ryzen 5600X and 32gigs of RAM at 3200Mhz.

Idle:
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Loading a bunch of videos in a row:
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Single video, left spike is initial video opening:
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I don't notice any slowdown, nor any real uptick in RAM usage between tests. Let me know if there's any better way I could do this. I also always have a game in the background, Spotify, Discord and several other Brave tabs running at the same time.
 
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I use Freetube/libredirect extension on PC and Newpipe with SponsorBlock.
For Normies just use Firefox and Ublock. Also clear cache on Ublock if you have used it for a long time.
 
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derpherp2 said:
I have also been meticulously taking off each and every extension and clearing caches to see what's causing the fuckups. It's 100% ublock.
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This is the next stage in the adblock arms race. Instead of pop ups and pop overs that say "turn your adblocker off" you just get CPU lock and a crashed browser or operating system. Google already slows down other browsers on purpose and gets away with it. So the next step is attacking specific extensions including ones for their own Chrome browser.
 
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There's so much conflicting shit with this "youtube chugging slow with adblocker on" happening:

Some are good on FireFox, some aren't.
Some are good on Brave, some aren't.
Some are good with uBlock, some aren't.
Some are good with Youtube Premium, some aren't.

All I'm saying is it may be both of them if this many issues on this many things is being reported. The Adskipper extension is doing a decent job for me.
 
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Google Chrome with uBlock Origin runs perfectly fine but a few days ago the button to clear the filters in uBlock disappeared. Still have uBlock activated and can watch YT without ads or any issues. Has YT given up?
 
Yamma Damma said:
There's so much conflicting shit with this "youtube chugging slow with adblocker on" happening:

Some are good on FireFox, some aren't.
Some are good on Brave, some aren't.
Some are good with uBlock, some aren't.
Some are good with Youtube Premium, some aren't.

All I'm saying is it may be both of them if this many issues on this many things is being reported. The Adskipper extension is doing a decent job for me.
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youtube commonly rolls out experimental regions in specific regions before going global with them, maybe that is why there's inconsistency?
 
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Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Google Chrome with uBlock Origin runs perfectly fine but a few days ago the button to clear the filters in uBlock disappeared. Still have uBlock activated and can watch YT without ads or any issues. Has YT given up?
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Version 1.55 of uBO removed the "Purge caches" button because people were constantly spamming it trying to fix their YouTube issues, which obviously caused a full download of all of the filter lists they were subscribed to. The original creator of uBO posted a screenshot of the costs incurred by just 1 server that hosts the lists, and it was over $6,000 a month, which, considering they don't charge nor accept donations, is not sustainable.

Now they use differential updates, which massively shrinks the size of each download, enabling them to reduce the frequency between automatic updates. You can still manually force an update of any individual list by clicking the little clock icon to the right of it, but the way things work now, you should rarely have a reason to do that and if you do, it'll only be the "quick fixes" list you need to update.

Since the new year, YouTube have updated their script once a day on Tuesday-Friday only, so they haven't given up yet, but they've reduced how often they update.
 
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Yamma Damma said:
There's so much conflicting shit with this "youtube chugging slow with adblocker on" happening:

Some are good on FireFox, some aren't.
Some are good on Brave, some aren't.
Some are good with uBlock, some aren't.
Some are good with Youtube Premium, some aren't.

All I'm saying is it may be both of them if this many issues on this many things is being reported. The Adskipper extension is doing a decent job for me.
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If this is some change YT is pushing then they generally dont just hit everyone at once.
They tend to do stuff like that piece by piece, each time only "updating" the website for an unknown number of users.
You can see this if you have multiple accounts and one got rolled over to something like a new layout and another did not.
This way any big fuck ups can be detected without nuking the website for all users.
 
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I got the "Adblocker has Updated!" jumpscare and decided to turn it back on jewtube. It's still got some lag but it works far better than it did a couple weeks ago. I'm assuming they fixed the main kinks but not the minor kinks just yet.
 
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std::string said:
It's definitely on a per-account basis. I've never been hit by it and I've never seen the enforced slowdown on Firefox either.

My account is ancient. It's from before they merged Youtube and Google accounts. I don't know if that makes a difference.
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I have three YouTube accounts, one of which was made before the switch to Google accounts.
Right now, the primary one that I am using is one made just specifically for the Google Account horseshit from way back when. Doing a little testing with the other two, it doesn't seem to be affected at all for me with regards to my adblock usage in terms of slowdown.

Then again, I am using Librewolf, plus a few other addons that to try and obfuscate my browser's identity and compartmentalize any activity on YouTube to that site only. Beyond a few initial hiccups, everything is nice and clean on my end.

If I may make a recommendation, perhaps try a sandbox on a different OS for test purposes with something like Librewolf installed, plus a few good addons to see if the effect is still the same.
 
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