In the past few years I have been cutting more and more of the internet out of my life. Maybe it's time to say goodbye to YouTube as well.
The more serious issue here is that other sites will use what YouTube is doing as a license to do this. It's happened before. YouTube was instrumental in kicking off the acceptance of killing IE6.
I'm guessing there's just a mundane retry mechanism that's not designed with uBlock in mind..?
Peacock is worse for this. It eventually uses all memory and crashes the tab. Still worth blocking the ads.
I've been wondering why my firefox has been so laggy on youtube but didn't put it together.
Are we going to keep fighting megacorps in this cat and mouse game or do what’s needed and split them up? A big problem is the same company influences/controls web standards, builds the most popular browser, operates the biggest ad network, and controls a public facing utility for hosting videos (YouTube).
So this marks yet another [1] instance of Google serving malicious code to users. I'm sure I'd instantly be put behind bars if I tried anything like this on the same scale. Don't be evil, what a joke.
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...
Here's an easy workaround that's been pretty reliable for me: https://www.youtube.com/premium
Not if you use Vinegar [0]. This extension is the main reason I can't switch from Safari to Orion as my main browser. The hit areas on YouTube's player controls are so obnoxious, I installed this just to work around them but it has the side benefit of loading the videos directly into the native video player without ads.
hope we are close to the point where fighting anti anti adblocking becomes more expensive than it is worth
Anecdotally, Youtube has gotten pathetically slow for me over the past few months. It freezes constantly and on any video longer than ten minutes I have to refresh the page part way through. My response will not be to disable my adblocker, but to stop using youtube completely. Youtube is the very last Google product I still use, and like most other parts of Google it seems Youtube has run out of good ideas and is now pushing bad ideas.
Google is an advertising company first.
Another reason Google should get decoupled.
They really are at war with the adblockers.
I wonder how much money they're spending in trying to fight this rat race. It's not just engineering hours but also people switching from chrome to Firefox, and the bad press associated with it.
I never thought adblocker usage was so prevalent, but this is just personal experience. No one I knew personally, normal people I mean, used adblocked. I remember I had a class in university where they encouraged people to install adblock, only a handful of us already had it installed. There were some pretty interesting ethical arguments for using adblock, sad that I can barely remember any!