Adblockers on Youtube?

[Azza ☠]

Could you please CTRL + ALT + DEL > Task Manager, and check your performance tab for CPU usage while watching a Youtube video with your Adblocker enabled.

If you find a high CPU usage, disable your Adblocker and refresh the page, then check again?

Video buffer of Youtube videos appears to be affected by quite a few Adblockers, increasing your PC load and makes your CPU sweat over time. Approx a 15-18% more CPU usage load.

This appears to occur even if you have a Youtube ad-free subscription, just with an Adblocker installed. So not sure if done on purpose, except for a 5 second black video loading delay that is there deliberately.

[Crazy Tiger]

Using Chrome and Ublock Origin, it was 1% difference for me.

[Sylveon]

引用自 Labyrinth：

People still using chrome lmao

most intelligent people use this browser

[Dom]

Google is intentionally slowing down YouTube on Firefox. They claim that ad blockers are to be blamed but this effect can be noticed even if ad blockers are disabled. Additionally, Chrome seems to be functioning better than Firefox with ad blockers enabled on both.

This likely affects the entire browser engine of Firefox, Gecko, and thus several browsers.
Google wants to prioritize their own engine Chromium.

I think there are legitimate questions if these are anti-competition actions and prohibited. It wouldn't be the first time this happens with these companies.

I don't use Chrome but sometimes I download portable Chromium builds. You can install Chrome extensions (including ad blocker) into those builds. I think it's a good workaround for those who don't like to use Chrome.

Some people have recommended Brave (uses Chromium) but it is too controversial in my view.

[Yasahi]

引用自 Dom：

Google is intentionally slowing down YouTube on Firefox. They claim that ad blockers are to be blamed but this effect can be noticed even if ad blockers are disabled.

This likely affects the entire browser engine of Firefox, Gecko, and thus several browsers.
Google wants to prioritize their own engine Chromium.

Has nothing to do with the engine and everything to do with ad blockers. Google is throttling Youtube on Chrome too if you're using ad blockers. Loading the page is extremely slow and moving to fullscreen takes several seconds if it even works properly.

Opera is extremely slow too if you use an ad blocker.

Several tech sites have reported the same and you can test it yourself too.

[druuu]

*laughs in youtube premium*

[Boblin the Goblin]

引用自 druuu：

*laughs in youtube premium*

YouTube Premium members are affected as well.

[Sylveon]

引用自 SlowMango：

引用自 druuu：

*laughs in youtube premium*

YouTube Premium members are affected as well.

I am using different front-end and it doe not affect me! (also there is ad-block built-in)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Across multiple (identical and different spec) PCs and browsers using different types of adblockers, less that 2.5% difference between them all. AMD fairing worse than Intel.

[Raelic]

引用自 Cksalzy：

引用自 Labyrinth：

People still using chrome lmao

literally everyone uses chrome

I swapped to Mozilla Firefox over this and it works great.

[Raelic]

引用自 Dom：

Google is intentionally slowing down YouTube on Firefox. They claim that ad blockers are to be blamed but this effect can be noticed even if ad blockers are disabled. Additionally, Chrome seems to be functioning better than Firefox with ad blockers enabled on both.

This likely affects the entire browser engine of Firefox,

I swapped over the weekend and Mozilla Firefox is working great.

[Vox]

引用自 εnigmatic：

引用自 Labyrinth：

People still using chrome lmao

Steam webhelper is based on chrome so. Technically we are all using it.

Steam uses chromium.

[metamec]

Ad blockers which use extended rules (like Ublock Origin) tend to use more system resources than those which use basic rules anyway. This is because they can use wildcards, regular expressions, and pattern matching on the inner text to get around obfuscation techniques which made the basic ruleset (which focused exclusively on HTML tag attributes) largely useless.

So when a site like YouTube starts very aggressively trying to force ads via multiple different vectors, a good adblocker with an extended ruleset is going to target every single one of them whether they exist or not. Ublock Origin is basically throwing everything including the kitchen sink at the problem now, and the number of rules is growing by the week. All of this inevitably has a growing impact on system resources.

[Max]

引用自 nineret：

引用自 Labyrinth：

People still using chrome lmao

most intelligent people use this browser

I use ie7 , don't jodj me

[Max]

Will I don't care I can use deep system AdBlocker not just system gl yt ban that lol

[crunchyfrog]

Change browser or use another Adblocker frankly.

It's well known that Google are trying to stop people using adblocker but there's easy ways round it. And also it does dpeend where you live I suspect too.

Here in Europe, we have a bit more consumer protection so I don't think they're allowed to go as heavy handed as in the US, for example.

I use Chrome sometimes, and I have two adblockers installed as plugins, because one doesn't quite work properly, but both fixes it. But I have heard that some people get performance hits if they do this. I don't.

So you can try using another browser like Brave or Opera GX that has adblockers more front and centre built in.