Redditors have sounded another alarm on YouTube, claiming that the Google-owned platform is now deliberately slowing its website down and stalling video playback for any user who is browsing with an ad blocker enabled. Those who want to skip the ads on YouTube can subscribe to YouTube Premium ($13.99/month), but according to one user, the lag is happening even for premium members.
Top comments:
- “And I thought there was something wrong with my internet connection.”
- “One thing to add also, this messes up the resources on the computer as a whole. It just kills chrome it seems.”
- “omfg i have youtube premium and still i faced this lag. I was almost about the reinstall chrome lol”
- “It makes the whole site laggy. I can’t type a comment, load anything, but every other tab on chrome is normal, even other video steaming stuff like twitch or netflix”
- “I was wondering why everything was lagging so much. Slide Preview, entering Fullscreen etc. Thought my PC was dying.”
We tested this theory ourselves, and sure enough, YouTube looks sickly whenever an ad blocker is enabled. Videos buffer incredibly slow, previews refuse to load properly, and entering theater mode or fullscreen is impossible without refreshing the website.
Source: reddit
Via: 9to5Google