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Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (21 children)

It's gotten to the point where I have to re-load each YT tab three times before the video ever starts playing - only because I use uBlock.

Still better than watching ads, but it is getting annoying.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have a theory that YT deliberately makes you wait the length an ad would have been if you have uBlock Origin installed. Ive just let it "buffer" for 30 seconds or so and it will eventually load the video.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think this is true, and I still prefer it to an ad. Even if it's longer than the ad would have been.

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

    I have the same problem, and after you start clicking play, often you can wait it out and the video will eventually play on its own after 10-15 seconds

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
    I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/

    • logout from google / clear cookies.
    • switch to a new "google" container and login to see your subscrpitions
    • if a video doesn't load switch to decontained

    also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites

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

    This does not work on phone OSes

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    For me, it works without reloading.... After a 15 second load and an insufferably laggy UI despite having no identifiable system bottleneck.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don't have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore. Other than that, MS Edge works exactly like Chrome.

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

    MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    MS Edge allows extensions that Chrome does not. It still fully supports uBlock Origin.

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

    I did not know that - but surely since it's based on Chrome, that means they're going to have to follow suit at some point?

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