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Latest Adblock update causes massive YouTube performance hit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Update 1/16 - Adblock has informed BleepingComputer that its engineers fixed the problem and released ABP 3.22.1 and AB 5.17.1 on the Opera and Edge extension stores. The same versions are currently in review on the Mozilla and Chrome add-on stores, and should be made available soon.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

laughs in Piped

Sorry - smugness isn't nice. But I don't know why people are still trying to use Youtube directly, when there are clearly much better options.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

iPhone users don't have the option of a convenient app, though I understand brave browser can work. Either way android users have an easier time blocking ads then Iphone users. I pay for YouTube family so my kids and the TV can avoid ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I dont know much about this topic, I just seem to recall a post on the front page of my lemmy app a while ago saying to NEVER use brave as it was a scam. Is there truth to this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Depends on why they were saying it was a scam. It's functional as a browser, so not a scam on the most basic level. It hasn't always been as privacy-supporting as it claims (somewhere between Chrome and Firefox if all are carefully configured, it seems). Brave also has a dubious crypto rewards scheme baked in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't think it was a scam as such. I think people didn't really understand their model. I haven't stayed informed on it though so maybe there is more to know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It may depend on location but I get awful long buffering times with piped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it could be. I host my own instance of Piped, and it feels like pretty much the same experience as if I were browsing YT directly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Laughs in Invidious (docker container) 😎