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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I got hit hard by the cpu bombing that youtube did to punish adblocking, to the point i had to stop watching videos while playing games.

cause having a video running while playing a game would bomb my performance so hard that I’d go from 150+fps to 15fps.

I think, ultimately, Googles war against adblockers Streisand’d the fuck out of adblockers and probably got more people ultimately to use them, either out of spite of googles bullshit or because they saw the arguments and realized the web was far better with a digital condom.

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Killer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The cpu bombing actually wasn’t Youtube, it was adblock plus (if thats what you were using)

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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nope, I use ublock origin.
  
  and never had a problem of youtube impacting games before.
  
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Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t know how true that is about YouTube intentionally CPU bombing ad block users specifically.

I will say though that websites run by big tech companies getting much heavier and more poorly optimized is ultimately just a fact of life. They don’t care about optimization, in fact it benefits them more that people have the latest and greatest hardware so that’s what they’re going to target. Ultimately that means that these websites will get slower on older hardware with time, and people will rely more and more on alternative frontends to access content, and it won’t really matter if you have ad blockers or not (*turning it off on a bloated site that is bogging down your CPU might actually make it worse).

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