alt Hacker Newsi can't even get youtube to load with ublock.. theres a years old thread with hundreds of comments on the github -- what are people actually using today to preserve their sanity on youtube?
edit: the issue with ublock is the black screen - sometimes the video loads after 10 or so seconds, sometimes it doesnt. i dont consider hiding the ad while still having to wait around for it to finsish playing behind an overlay the same as "blocking" :|
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Ublock origin for whatever reason never blocks ads before video for me. IDK what is up with my parameters because I know it works for other people.
Still using ublock. Recently there's a delay starting vid sometimes, about 3 sec. I can deal with it.
Using ublock and umatrix both on firefox with full tracking protection enabled. Don't recall ever having any issues with youtube. Sometimes an alert will pop up "see why you're experiencing playback interruptions" and it clicks through to a page about how this is due to my adblocking extension but the joke is on them because I don't recall it ever actually being interrupted. It's just this erroneous alert that occasionally pops up.
Thats interesting. If you’re on Chrome I’d try out Firefox just to see. I haven’t had any issues for a long time.
Works fine for me, FF Win11
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I have the same issue. Perma-black loading screen that resolves as soon as I disable ublock origin. Using Firefox on Debian.