YouTube has worked fine for me using Firefox with Ublock Origin, with no lag, notifications telling me to turn off ad blocking, or any of the other issues users have reported here.
Nope, never.
There will be issues with SponsorBlock in the future, though. Instead of adding the advertisements on client side, they will be added directly into the video stream on server side, messing up all timestamps.
But advertisement needs to be properly marked by law so users know that what they are seeing is somekind of ads, so I guess we should be able to detect and work around it somehow, even if it’s cutting audio and making the screen black eventually.
The thing is, you need multiple timings or “complex” calculations depending on placement of the ad or if the user has premium or not. All timestamps after the first slipstreamed ad will be off by the duration of the ad.
I wonder how this will be handled with creator-set timestamps in the video description. Those also will be off. Maybe SponsorBlock can hook into this somehow. Classic adblockers won’t block those ads, though.
Great timing, I was literally just dealing with YouTube problems. I have YouTube Premium and uBlock off for YouTube, it’s still oddly slow. I just cleared all my browser data and it seems to have helped a bit, but earlier the YouTube tab literally took 3 minutes to even begin to load with the CPU pegged at 100% the whole time. I have gigabit fiber, it should be pretty fast.
My FF+UBO has some minor hicups like sometimes I need to refresh to get the video to play as it just sits on a black screen (dark mode) with a spinning circle, that is my only issue and usually only once every few days. Oddly enough on Chrome (I use different browsers for different tasks) yesterday when I tried to start a stream the page refused to load, when it mostly did 2 panels would not load, when I went to reuse settings from a previous stream the entire page was missing all the info, after a reboot and 10 mins it finally worked.
Edit: For some reason I did not think to check my cpu usage so can’t say if I was at 100% or what
Weird. I have youtube premium but never turn ublock off and I’ve almost never had any issues. I mostly watch youtube on MacOS, but Windows or Linux (not signed in) I’ve almost never had issues with it. Maybe try turning it on?
Doesn’t make a difference, it was hanging before the point where it would even try to load ad domains. It was kind of weird.
Like, you’d click YouTube from bookmark and it would peg the CPU for seconds and sometimes minutes while still displaying the new tab page. Once the white background of YouTube would pop finally it took about 10-15 seconds to load.
I think the cache might have been utterly borked.
My experience is the same, but it may be that the anti-adblock measures are still being tested on specific demographics and we are in the lucky group (for now).
Oh, they definitely A/B Test. Not even A/B in our case, it’s like A/B/C/D/E/F Testing lmfao.
No.
I have had issues before, but ubo has always been quick to patch to fix the issues
Like one time a few months ago and thats it.
I don’t like talking about fight club but no I’ve never had issues with fight club
Anyone dealing with issues: try setting the user agent to chrome to see if this is Google’s doing
I run it as a pwa using an extension. The only extensions I have running in the pwa container are ublock & sponsorblock. No custom user-agent or anything else. Never had an issue
YouTube shorts either don’t start or they play through one and a half times with audio and no video.
Sometimes regular videos sometimes won’t start well and I restart Firefox and then they work.
No other site that I know of has problems like that.
videos sometimes won’t start well and I restart Firefox
Try to refresh first, usually works for me
The only time Ublock Origin was wonky for me was that strip of time where Youtube was outright blocking videos if they detected a blocker-- that time, none of the documentation on “how to make Ublock work during this time” worked for me; but it cleared up a few months back and not a single issue since.
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of ads injected in one particular Firefox profile. All I have to do to make it go away (for now) is to switch to a different tab container.
But this is Google rolling out anti-ad-blocking technology and testing the waters. So your mileage may vary.
