Haven’t seen Youtube tabs crash like this in like 6 years, now it’s happening several times a day. The Youtube UI is also painfully laggy- when you hover over a video it takes like 3-5 seconds for the player to show up and equally as long when I try to pause the video or change settings. When I open the Youtube front page it just shows a blank dark background for a long while before anything loads. Sometimes Youtube tabs get stuck loading, showing only the video with no UI, no way to pause, no comments or recommended videos and the only way to fix it is to open the page in a new tab. It also sometimes seems like a fucked Youtube tab drags the whole browser down, making any websites load endlessly until I close my Youtube tabs.

It’s been like this for a few weeks? months? now, but it’s steadily getting worse. I assume it might be Youtube fucking with either uBlock users, or Firefox users, or both

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    I assume it might be Youtube fucking with either uBlock users, or Firefox users, or both

    definitely this. youtube wants you back on the web browser owned by their corpo and ads shoved into your eyes like broken glass. or if not your monthly $

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        It’s genius. No matter how upsetting or disgusting a change is, they can roll it out to just the right partition of users designed to prevent a critical mass of people getting upset enough to congregate and do anything about it collectively.

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          Their genius is not from A/B testing, the genius is normalizing the proliferation of non-free programs that only the software’s landlord apparent can control.

          We are just tenants who meekly ask for a license contract to use their programs. Only with a libre (software shared collectively) program do you actually become a user and not used.

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    Yes it is because uBlock Origin I’ve found. It tries to load ads, goes wowee when it can’t, and will just sit there until the ad timer is up before actually loading.

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    could be YouTube AB testing some bullshit because I’ve not personally noticed this in the UK

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    Yeah, YouTube seems deliberately broken for Firefox and/or uBlock and/or the combination (I would never go to YouTube without uBlock so I can’t do isolation testing). Nowadays if I want to watch something on YouTube, I just grab the link and download it with yt-dlp to watch it locally in VLC. I can delete the video after.

    This has the added benefit of not making my old computer’s fans chug, and it prevents YouTube from doing that annoying thing of throwing up a giant thumbnail for another video in the center of the video BEFORE it has finished which blocks vision of the video.

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    Yup it’s absolute ass for me lately. I have a pretty powerful laptop but just youtube has been crawling. And I have premium so the ad blocker I’m running shouldn’t even matter >_<. Oh well, guess it’s time to cancel premium and embrace alternate ways of getting slop.

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    Same, but it comes and goes for me and it doesn’t crash, it just doesn’t load. I have to refresh the page to actually load the video and even then I can only see the first minute. I have a yt account mostly for making comments, giving likes and making public playlists but it’s kinda over. I’d prefer to have something like Audiotube or some other free software client

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      even then I can only see the first minute

      This has started to happen to me recently but only as long as I have scripts from the jnn-pa.gogleapis.com domain blocked. If I allow that one videos load beyond the first minute. This also seems to only happen randomly. Might be related to new uploads, but not sure about that.

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        Hmm I’ll check it out, thanks. Must be a new domain because it’s only happened since last week. Another weird thing that’s happened is InnerTune is unable to fetch music even when logged on. Ffs just when I thought it couldn’t worse

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    This started for me(Firefox + UBlock Origin) months ago right around the time Youtube started attacking Ublock so I assumed that was the reason for the lag. Had my whole computer crash because of it. Using alternative front-ends consistently since then.

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    yep. buffering and performance once loaded has been fine, but uBlock has been failing to block ads when the page first loads, so i just get an empty player with an unloaded 15 second seek bar until i refresh. i think they’re fucking with video-embedded ads or some shit idk

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    This was on a pi, but YouTube was constantly crashing my browser. Clearing the cookies (just for YouTube) fixed it. It’s happened a couple times. Clearing YouTube cookies fixed it each time.

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    I believe google uses the same frontend framework for everything which will legit leak memory and crash if you use ublock origin. I noticed is in the google cloud console lmao. I think there was some other thing where it implements an api that wasn’t implemented on firefox, shadow dom v0 or something and for Firefox it uses a bunch of bloated shims instead but idk how accurate that is anymore. But yeah when i remove ublock my google cloud tabs stop leaking memory and crashing and perform a little better.

    I should probably put together some evidence for my statements… Nah

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    yeah. haven’t had crashes like this but get pages slow to load and 2010-style buffering sometimes. i think my FF is just bloated with extensions and shit though, I might need to try a full reset. using librewolf with just ublock made things a bit smoother. the website does suck though

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    was having this problem recently, but closing some of my tabs helped it. I had like fifty youtube tabs open and I went and watched a bunch of them so I could clear them out and my remaining youtube tabs stopped chugging so bad and now it’s much less painful

    spoke too soon, just tried to open a tab and it was laggy as fuck, like 8 seconds to get response and after closing the tab the audio continued for about as long