Youtube lags

[BOP]

All of a sudden, within the last 3 days, something has changed, because youtube has become almost unbearably lagged.

I type something in a reply, and it lags...and lags...and lags...and lags...until finally, the text pops up.

I click on a link of any kind ("reply," "see more," and so on), and it lags...and it lags...and it lags...until the link opens up.

If I scroll down to see more replies, same thing. It lags and lags and lags until the page populates. If I scroll back up to the video, it takes forever to load.

It's not happening with anything else with the internet, using FF; only youtube, which, by the way, I pay for premium.

 

[Grumpy]

All of a sudden, within the last 3 days, something has changed, because youtube has become almost unbearably lagged.

I type something in a reply, and it lags...and lags...and lags...and lags...until finally, the text pops up.

I click on a link of any kind ("reply," "see more," and so on), and it lags...and it lags...and it lags...until the link opens up.

If I scroll down to see more replies, same thing. It lags and lags and lags until the page populates. If I scroll back up to the video, it takes forever to load.

It's not happening with anything else with the internet, using FF; only youtube, which, by the way, I pay for premium.

Not premium but have gotten a few hangs causing me to close the tab and restart YT over the last week.

 

[BOP]

Not premium but have gotten a few hangs causing me to close the tab and restart YT over the last week.

I think it's their AI censorship program running everything through it all at once. It seems to be worse during the day.

 

[GURPS]

All of a sudden, within the last 3 days, something has changed, because youtube has become almost unbearably lagged.

I type something in a reply, and it lags...and lags...and lags...and lags...until finally, the text pops up.

Are you using an Ad Blocker ?

If so Google, for the past 6 months or so, has been rolling out a feature to lag your video playback ...
I switched Mullvad Browser just for watching YouTube on my main account

Mullvad is based on Firefox and uBlock is built in ... for maximum paranoia - Mullvad has a VPN but that is NOT required

 

[BOP]

Are you using an Ad Blocker ?

If so Google, for the past 6 months or so, has been rolling out a feature to lag your video playback ...
I switched Mullvad Browser just for watching YouTube on my main account

Mullvad is based on Firefox and uBlock is built in ... for maximum paranoia - Mullvad has a VPN but that is NOT required



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I am using AdBlocker Ultimate; however, I also pay for youtube premium. I hate that even with premium, adblocker is still blocking elements.

 

[BOP]

Are you using an Ad Blocker ?

If so Google, for the past 6 months or so, has been rolling out a feature to lag your video playback ...
I switched Mullvad Browser just for watching YouTube on my main account

Mullvad is based on Firefox and uBlock is built in ... for maximum paranoia - Mullvad has a VPN but that is NOT required



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I see it's a TOR-based browser, which I've been considering trying anyway. D/l Mullvad r/n.

 

[GURPS]

I see it's a TOR-based browser, which I've been considering trying anyway. D/l Mullvad r/n.

It can be ... I'm not on tor to use this

 

[GURPS]

I am using AdBlocker Ultimate; however, I also pay for youtube premium. I hate that even with premium, adblocker is still blocking elements.

ah that sucks ... sounds like my Az Prime - now with Advertisements

 

[BOP]

D/l the browser, but I'm trying the FF extension first to see how I like it.

The extension is available in private windows, so I enabled that, too. There's nothing like browsing to your favorite porn site (xhamster, for the curious) and having a google sign-in popup appear. Yeah, like I'm gonna give google access to my porn habits. They already know too much about me as it is. That's why I use a private window...so I'm not getting the kind of ads Gill gets on his computer. Presumably.

 

[BOP]

It can be ... I'm not on tor to use this

Similar architecture. Not exactly the same. I'm not using a VPN at the moment, but if google gets even more intrusive, I will.

Privacy quality of the Tor Browser. To use with a VPN.​

Using a VPN is not enough to achieve perfect privacy online. There’s simply too much data being extracted through most browsers. The Mullvad Browser is a web browser with the privacy quality of the Tor Browser, to be used with a trustworthy VPN.

 

[GURPS]

There's nothing like browsing to your favorite porn site (xhamster, for the curious) and having a google sign-in popup appear. Yeah, like I'm gonna give google access to my porn habits. They already know too much about me as it is. That's why I use a private window...so I'm not getting the kind of ads Gill gets on his computer. Presumably.

I've been seeing that for the past 6 months or so, EVERY News Site I visit that wants me to ' login ' even if not required to access the content Google Pops up ....

 

[GURPS]

Similar architecture. Not exactly the same. I'm not using a VPN at the moment, but if google gets even more intrusive, I will.

I have a Socks 5 Prox I use with my Torrent Downloader, I could swap to .... makes my IP in Europe somewhere

 

[stgislander]

I've been seeing that for the past 6 months or so, EVERY News Site I visit that wants me to ' login ' even if not required to access the content Google Pops up ....

Plus those news sites (looking at you FNC) wants you to disable your adblocker.

 

[BOP]

Plus those news sites (looking at you FNC) wants you to disable your adblocker.

Yeah, same. Even though I clear out my browser once or twice a week.

Remember the good old days when you had to clear out your cookies and your dot-tmp files just to have room on your hard drive?

Every time I clean my browser, it's always at least a gig of crap being cleared out (I use ccleaner, which used to be crap cleaner). That's another reason I use a private FF window for my gilligan sites.