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YouTube simply found itself in the unenviable position of being a very popular platform, being the most impacted by the bug, and having the least benefit of the doubt considering its past aggressive anti-ad blocker measures. So there's the rub: the blame likely falls with AdBlock, and the problems may impact other websites. Instead, as Hill writes on the project's GitHub wiki: 'Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. uBlock Origin is free, open-source, and doesn't take donations. It should be also noted that Hill doesn't have much to gain from pointing this stuff out. While uBlock was acquired by AdBlock in 2018, it should be noted that Hill works on uBlock Origin, a version of the extension that remained independent after uBlock's acquisition.

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'Since it affects both Adblock Plus and AdBlock, the performance regression hits harder those who had the bad idea to use both at once.'

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'I investigated a bit the performance regressions, and the cause is many distinct code paths, affect many sites' wrote Hill, later highlighting sites which update dynamically. This was further highlighted by Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin on Twitter. That's to be taken with whatever pinches of salt you deem fit, though there's been some compelling evidence surfacing on AdBlock's github page which suggests that YouTube is innocent in the whole debacle, past transgressions aside.Īs highlighted by beepingcomputer, the issue trackers on GitHub for both AdBlock and AdBlock Plus have been reporting problems with the extension's latest updates (5.17 and 3.22 respectively).

I've received a comment from Christopher Lawton (YouTube's communication manager) who says in no uncertain terms: 'loading delays experienced by Adblock and AdBlock Plus users are not caused by our ad blocker detection efforts.' YouTube responds, blame may lie in AdBlock Update Pour utiliser Adblock Plus, cliquez simplement sur Ajouter Chrome. Avec Adblock Plus, votre vision du Web va changer. These measures have made the company first-in-line to blame for any problems with these extensions-even when, as it turns out, it's (relatively) innocent. Plus qu'un simple bloqueur de publicit, Adblock Plus vous permet de prendre totalement le contrle de votre connexion Internet, de bloquer les virus et de mettre fin au pistage. The report stated that YouTube's communications manager Christopher Lawton 'said that users will keep seeing issues like this as YouTube’s ad-blocker detection methods improve'. In November of last year, TheVerge reported a five-second loading delay on other browsers running ad blockers, and the company's statements created a solid M.O for this kind of thing.

While YouTube has come under severe suspicion-including from myself-said suspicion was not entirely unwarranted. Our Guides Writer Sarah James tested the extension with Premium, and noted an increase of about 15-18%. The slow-down also appears to be impacting users who are subscribed to YouTube Premium while using AdBlocker for other websites, which is a problem-seeing as a subscription is a way to avoid ads without violating ToS, causing some users to feel hard done by.

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