Flynn_Mandrake,
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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.

amanneedsamaid,

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

techgearwhips,

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

Excrubulent,
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I have firefox and ublock and they’re not always working, so I just open the video url in any video player that supports it. In potplayer I just copy the video url and use ctrl+v in the main video window and it opens with no issues.

Chewy7324,

ff2mpv adds a button in the addon bar and in the context menu to open a video in mpv. It’s awesome and removes the manual copy and pasting of the url.

ttps://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv

CJOtheReal,

Youtube is slow as hell regardless of adblock or not, bro i can have a freshly installed chrome browser and it runs like the server hamster died a week ago and they replaced it with a platypus that has artists

empireOfLove2,
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I’ve always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.

voight, (edited )
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