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📣 laweijfmvo

WTF Is YouTube Doing?


As of the past weekend, Youtube is almost unbearably slow doing anything on my iMac running Safari. Yes, I use a content blocker (1Blocker) and a DNS sinkhole (Adguard), BUT, I pay for Youtube Premium.

I finally started paying for Premium in response to their attempts to stop ad blocking, but now they have my money; apparently they never wanted it in the first place, just my data.

  👤 sp332 Accepted Answer ✓
A few weeks ago when a lot of people complained about this, it turned out to be a bug in AdBlock. Try switching to uBlock Origin for a while and see if that helps?
👤 PaulHoule
It's been running terribly on Firefox for me but works fine on Chrome.
👤 pwg
yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.