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YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

does anyone here use librewolf? for the past month or so YouTube has been completely fucked there. constantly freezing, sometimes pic only, sometimes fully as if my internet is slow, which it isn't.

I'm suspecting they're purposely fucking it for non chromium browsers but haven't seen much complaining about it. i go back to Vivaldi for YouTube for now which works perfectly but soon enough the ublock will stop working.

does it happen to anyone? is it non chromiums? is it librewolf? is it just mine?

[–] Jolteon 6 points 2 months ago

Oh, it's sleep(5) all over again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Firefox working fine for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes. Noticed yesterday. I was even logged in to a friend's YouTube Premium account. Loaded like I have slow internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep, when ive resorted to yt directly on librewolf it usually freezes/buffers and tab needs refreshing every 5-10mins or so of vid. Sometimes it’s ok. Pretty inconsistent. I use ublock and sponsor block with librewolf . Usually i use invidious or yattee, Which have their own issues also playing whackamole with the giant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

based on another comment I'll check out privacy badger and noscript; see if that helps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm using LibreWolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript where I selectively allow scripts and I never got an ad served on YT

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i don't get ad served either, that wasn't my question... but maybe it's the script thing, i don't have script blockers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Privacy Badger seems a bit redundant there