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<blockquote data-quote="6pack" data-source="post: 2499699" data-attributes="member: 1119"><p>I think YT is purposely doing something (like making video playback really bad or not loading page properly) to FF and other non YT app users who use adblockers. On FF, if i delete all YT cookies, the page loads in 1 second with thumbnails and everything. After 4-5 videos and with ublock origin adblocker always on, the home page loads only first 2-3 lines of thumbnails and rest are grey placeholders. Then when you try to play videos, the video resolution goes down to 144p or just stops loading until you change resolution to one of 360, 480, 720p or 1080p. Then after a minute it stops again. If you play using YT app on phone no such thing happens because you're forced to watch 3-4 ads. </p><p>I have an app called Freetube on linux, and even on that the playback is very bad now. Previously it used to work properly and i could watch 5-6 videos back to back continuously without problems. Now since few days, videos stop loading mid way and wont play. Same issue where we have to change default video resolution to make it play again. And this starts only after playing 2-3 videos without problems. Always 4th video and above that has problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="6pack, post: 2499699, member: 1119"] I think YT is purposely doing something (like making video playback really bad or not loading page properly) to FF and other non YT app users who use adblockers. On FF, if i delete all YT cookies, the page loads in 1 second with thumbnails and everything. After 4-5 videos and with ublock origin adblocker always on, the home page loads only first 2-3 lines of thumbnails and rest are grey placeholders. Then when you try to play videos, the video resolution goes down to 144p or just stops loading until you change resolution to one of 360, 480, 720p or 1080p. Then after a minute it stops again. If you play using YT app on phone no such thing happens because you're forced to watch 3-4 ads. I have an app called Freetube on linux, and even on that the playback is very bad now. Previously it used to work properly and i could watch 5-6 videos back to back continuously without problems. Now since few days, videos stop loading mid way and wont play. Same issue where we have to change default video resolution to make it play again. And this starts only after playing 2-3 videos without problems. Always 4th video and above that has problems. [/QUOTE]
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