Browser/Chrome and YouTube

[KongHarald]

- Yesterday I switched on my computer and opened up YouTube in my browser and it was so slow, it took ages for the page to load, maybe 30 seconds to get the page loaded (all the thumb nails) and the video to start running, normally it takes 1 second, tops. When the video is ready to load however it runs fine with no buffering, but when I scroll down to see the comments it took ages again to see them and to get the thumb nails of the recommended videos on the right hand side loaded. While the video was running I opened up another tab and tried different pages, football results, news papers, twitter, you name it, they load fast as they normally do. Browser is Chrome, I always use Chrome and it's never been a problem before.

So I switched to FireFox and here YT loads fast as it normally does with no problem.

It's the same today: Chrome slow with YouTube. FireFox fast with YouTube.
Any ideas?
Thank you

[r.linder]

Chrome, Edge, and Opera browsers are all more spyware than browser, if you absolutely can't live without Chromium browsers then your best options are Brave and Ungoogled Chromium, otherwise the best browsers in general for privacy are (tweaked) Firefox and variants like LibreWolf, Icecat, Mullvad, and Tor.

[ShriekViola]

There are also alternative open source front ends such as Invidious which lets you just watch the source video whilst cutting out the ads and most of the other 'engagement' dreck that has made that tumorous cyst of a website a near insufferable user experience for years now.

[renka]

found on reddit and its working for me
"Install uBlock Origin add-on and enable Annoyance filters, and in youtube video window make sure Ambiant mode is turned off."