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Youtube slowing down due to addblock (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (1 children)

YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, Invidious is so much lighter than YouTube that I've had sucess watching on onion instances via Tor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Invidious has a bug where it doesn't update as frequently as it's supposed to. I've had this issue on both my self hosted and public instances. I'm thinking about switching to freetube. Always hear about it but never tried it