for those of you with (older) laptops?

other sites seem to be as fine as they ever were, but my YouTube is being super slow and I can't quite figure out why. it's taking 10 seconds for a video to maximize. it just did that thing where I was typing a sentence, and it took 30 seconds for it to all appear very slowly.. isn't happening on any other site

maybe they've added even more stuff that my old PC can't process quickly enough at the same time as everything else? can anyone think of a program I could run to help with this? or maybe there's an old browser mode I can run? I don't understand why this is suddenly a problem when it wasn't two weeks ago. maybe I got a virus

1/16/2024 12:18:48 PM

Twitter seems to load more videos and stuff at once, and it's working just fine too

1/16/2024 12:20:15 PM

https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-likely-as-part-of-its-draconian-war-on-ad-blockers/

Does this apply to you?

1/16/2024 1:54:50 PM

it does lol, thanks

I figured it might be something like that

somehow I have this old laptop so I get no youtube ads at all

1/16/2024 1:56:44 PM

if you don't like the new layout (comments on right, recommended videos below)

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1c15mef/updated_guide_fixing_youtubes_ui_and_big_related/

5/21/2024 11:57:45 PM

brave browser is great for the tube of yous, no ads and you can change a setting and play videos with the screen off

5/22/2024 7:00:58 AM

I like the ads so I can learn about important products and political candidates

5/22/2024 9:58:44 AM

^

I unironically agree. I don't use ad blockers, I like seeing what's up. You can use it for jokes, you can learn something new, you can see something. It's part of the world... and only up to 30 seconds of my time -- I don't mind it.

5/22/2024 2:45:19 PM

Suckers.

5/22/2024 3:40:02 PM

whatever it was got fixed

on my end, at least

probably had something to do with adblock

5/22/2024 7:08:06 PM