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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)
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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 192 points 10 months ago (14 children)

A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium.

Or just switching to ublock origin.

Or just switching to newpipe.

Or just switching to freetube.

etc

etc

etc

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Or downloading videos to watch later? Does Plex recognize YouTube videos?

[–] spiderman@ani.social 1 points 10 months ago

but won't it be hassle to follow that?

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