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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent

Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant's comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn't really provide details LOL

[–] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

fixed it by blocking the element

Which one? That'd certainly help to know how to do that

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button

I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock

The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don't think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

So far it worked and I'm back to no ads and no interruptions

[–] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I'll have a look at this later and I'm sure it'll prove useful for everyone!

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I am trying to add it. Just copy your YouTube stuff -> go to myFilters -> paste?

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yea, I have a couple more that I forget does what (I think a couple are for hiding youtube games and shorts and stuff), but it should just look like this in my filters.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Ty so very much kind person.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lemme know if they ever reply.

[–] nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Yes they did! See right above or direct link https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19270078

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have ublock, with sponsor block and some others, and don't have any issues on yt as of yet. Just in case though, how do I block an element and spoof a user agent?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

YouTube does a shit ton of A/B testing so they probably didn't roll that change out to everyone yet. I currently don't have any issues either but they will eventually hit us with that shit.

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Also interested in how you can do this.