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YouTube is throttling video buffering if it detects ad blocker

posted 311 days ago by Unknownsailor 311 days ago by Unknownsailor +72 / -0

Reddit post on this.

https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-likely-as-part-of-its-draconian-war-on-ad-blockers/

Apparently PC Gamer is reporting a 15% CPU usage spike, on top of the throttled buffering.

Louis Rossmann has a video on it, too.

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– OmegaBird 5 points 311 days ago +5 / -0

Hilarious, I haven't even noticed. I stream video and play high graphic games at once. It must be all my blockers running and opera gx that's keeping yt suppressed

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– Assassin47 4 points 311 days ago +4 / -0

Opera GX is run by faggots.

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