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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
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    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

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      fixed it by blocking the element

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

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        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

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

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            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.

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

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        Lemme know if they ever reply.

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

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      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?

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        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.

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      Also interested in how you can do this.

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