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[–] CoggyMcFee 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I have YouTube premium and an adblocker and I don’t have this problem. I’m skeptical that it’s related.

[–] CosmicCleric 4 points 11 months ago

I have YouTube premium and an adblocker and I don’t have this problem. I’m skeptical that it’s related.

I too am a YouTube premium customer, and my video performance is horrible lately.

Funny enough, on my living room smart TV YouTube app my performance has been bad as well, even though I am logged in to my premium YouTube account.

Something is going on, and it does effect some (at least) premium customers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Wasn't that exactly how the adblock blocks went out in the first place? Only a few areas at a time were affected.

[–] essteeyou 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same, YT Premium, Firefox, ad blocker, no issues with streaming.

[–] essteeyou 1 points 11 months ago

So, since writing the above I've been having issues with YouTube. I've been connected to my VPN, so perhaps that's part of it (by which I mean Google slowing it down, the VPN doesn't noticeably slow down any other sites).

I tried deactivating my ad blocker, but it hasn't made a difference. I'll try more stuff to see if I can figure it out.