Even if they throttled my speed so that I’m wasting the same amount of time waiting for the site to load as i would be by watching an ad, I still win because I didn’t have to watch an ad.

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.

Isn’t it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I’m just not interested)

The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.

Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.

And on top of that there’s only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline

The word is “advertisement” which has only one “d”, so the shortened form of it is "ad’ or “ads”.

If you’re experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription

Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.

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youtube-dlp is your friend then - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I’m glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.

I’m quite satisfied with GrayJay app.

I stopped watching videos on YouTube and instead started to use mpv since it allows me to watch the video at a higher resolution without burning my PC

Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos

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

User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me

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Yes, use Newpipe