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YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For about the last 3 years I've been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    FWIW, I've been using ublock origin, too, and it's mostly worked fine.

    Until a few days ago, when Youtube started detecting it and showing down the site and telling me I can only watch 3 more videos before it cuts me off. That hasn't happened yet, but I definitely feel the slowdown. I'm hoping a ublock upgrade will fix it soon.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I've been getting them over the last week or so on both Chrome at work (Ublock lite) and Firefox at home (UBlock Origin). It's just a popup telling me adblockers aren't allowed and then a second smaller popup saying something to the effect of "loading issues?" with a link as the video delays playing for a few seconds.

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