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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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– MLGS 19 points 311 days ago +19 / -0

I still hate that you can't just buffer a whole video up by clicking play then pause then doing something else for half an hour.

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– redman012 7 points 311 days ago +7 / -0

They intentionally removed that for some god awful reason

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

Harder to download video if broken up.

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

I used to do that all the time back when I was a teenager hijacking my neighbour's wifi signal. One of the things I miss most about early youtube.

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