Haven't seen Youtube tabs crash like this in like 6 years, now it's happening several times a day. The Youtube UI is also painfully laggy- when you hover over a video it takes like 3-5 seconds for the player to show up and equally as long when I try to pause the video or change settings. When I open the Youtube front page it just shows a blank dark background for a long while before anything loads. Sometimes Youtube tabs get stuck loading, showing only the video with no UI, no way to pause, no comments or recommended videos and the only way to fix it is to open the page in a new tab. It also sometimes seems like a fucked Youtube tab drags the whole browser down, making any websites load endlessly until I close my Youtube tabs.
It's been like this for a few weeks? months? now, but it's steadily getting worse. I assume it might be Youtube fucking with either uBlock users, or Firefox users, or both
The power of A/B testing. Fuck over a small portion of your users and observe the results and the users are just guinea pigs.
It's genius. No matter how upsetting or disgusting a change is, they can roll it out to just the right partition of users designed to prevent a critical mass of people getting upset enough to congregate and do anything about it collectively.
Their genius is not from A/B testing, the genius is normalizing the proliferation of non-free programs that only the software's landlord apparent can control.
We are just tenants who meekly ask for a license contract to use their programs. Only with a libre (software shared collectively) program do you actually become a user and not used.