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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago
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Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
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    fixed it by blocking the element

    Which one? That’d certainly help to know how to do that

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      www.youtube.com/##.paper-toast-open.yt-notification-action-renderer.style-scope.toast-button

      I believe it was this one, just add it as part of the filter list in ublock

      The extension I used for user agent was this one. I don’t think it matters what you spoof as, but I chose to spoof as chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

      So far it worked and I’m back to no ads and no interruptions

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        Thanks, I’ll have a look at this later and I’m sure it’ll prove useful for everyone!

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      Lemme know if they ever reply.

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        Yes they did! See right above or direct link https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19270078

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