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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No. It works across all my systems. I never see ads on YT. However...

Videos not loading or playing delayed: That's a YT feature which they implemented for Firefox users, to annoy them. And to promote Chrome as "the fastest" webbrowser.

I also have dns issues at home... I should fix them already. Sometimes, a page doesn't load on the first try.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 20 points 1 day ago

You can try user agent switcher. Sometimes it is detected or causes issues, but if YouTube thinks you are running Chrome then you may get better service.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I experience the same issue. All the elements on the page load extremely slow or sometimes not at all.

[–] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I noted an experimental rule in uBO to address delays, but have not tried it yet myself.

Under settings, Filter lists, Built-in, uBlock filters - Experimental

Code has a comment:

! fake buffering on the initial load