I have ublock, with sponsor block and some others, and don’t have any issues on yt as of yet. Just in case though, how do I block an element and spoof a user agent?
Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent
D_C@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
YouTube does a shit ton of A/B testing so they probably didn’t roll that change out to everyone yet. I currently don’t have any issues either but they will eventually hit us with that shit.
Pofski@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also interested in how you can do this.
nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Which one? That’d certainly help to know how to do that
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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. addons.mozilla.org/…/user-agent-string-switcher/
So far it worked and I’m back to no ads and no interruptions
nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thanks, I’ll have a look at this later and I’m sure it’ll prove useful for everyone!
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okay, I am trying to add it. Just copy your YouTube stuff -> go to myFilters -> paste?
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yea, I have a couple more that I forget does what (I think a couple are for hiding youtube games and shorts and stuff), but it should just look like this in my filters.
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Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemme know if they ever reply.
nameisnotimportant@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yes they did! See right above or direct link sh.itjust.works/comment/19270078