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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent

Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant's comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn't really provide details LOL

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    fixed it by blocking the element

    Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button

    I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock

    The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don't think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

    So far it worked and I'm back to no ads and no interruptions

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Okay, I am trying to add it. Just copy your YouTube stuff -> go to myFilters -> paste?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have ublock, with sponsor block and some others, and don't have any issues on yt as of yet. Just in case though, how do I block an element and spoof a user agent?

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