Is YouTube slow? Ad blocker problem

It appears that Google, or more specifically YouTube, is taking action to prevent its users from using ad blockers in order to avoid advertising that appears before and during the video. As several users were able to verify, The platform slows down significantly when someone watches a video using Adblock.; one of the most popular ad blocking extensions for Chrome.

Users They are unclear whether this is intentional on YouTube’s part.or is it just a bug that can be solved by updating the above ad blocker. However, they found that the player was freezing or that YouTube was even using all the CPU resources while playing videos, he says. Edge.

IN Hypertext We were able to verify that with Adblock activated Video playback is very slow. There are cutouts, loading issues, and significant lag when selecting options in the desktop player, such as setting the resolution or just the playback bar. We were also able to verify that all these problems go away in another browser where the ad blocker is not activated. It can also be solved by deactivating the above extension.

YouTube confirms this is not intentional

YouTube, for its part, confirmed that the video slowdown is not a result of the measures they are taking against ad blockers. “Recent reports of users experiencing loading delays on YouTube are not related to our efforts to detect ad blockers,” a company spokesperson told the outlet. Android Center.

So everything points to YouTube playback issues. They are caused by the latest Adblock and Adblock Plus updates. Currently these are versions 5.17 and 3.22 respectively.

The solution is therefore disable Adblock. Or instead, choose another extension that blocks ads while the developer of the aforementioned ad blocker I’m working on a new update to fix the bug.

In any case, it wouldn’t be strange if YouTube took a similar measure to prevent users from avoiding ads appearing in videos. In fact, the platform has already taken a number of measures in this regard. Among them, there is one that was preventing people from watching their videos – and they have finally fixed it.