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YouTube Accused Of Throttling CPU Performance For Users With AdBlock Installed<\/span><\/p>\n

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As if the noticeably longer ads on YouTube weren’t unbearable enough, the streaming video platform is now also in the spotlight due to slowing down PCs for users that have AdBlock installed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That was the topic of a new PCGamer.com article<\/a>, which noted that “AdBlock users have been reporting widespread performance issues with the extension enabled on YouTube”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A thread in the YouTube subreddit detailed<\/a> that AdBlock enabling would cause slow load times and increased CPU usage when on YouTube.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This messes up the resources on the computer as a whole. It just kills Chrome it seems,” one person wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The author tested the issue himself and found that his CPU usage rose about 17% when using\u00a0AdBlock on the site.<\/strong> While not a catastrophic increase in processor use, the author did note that “lower-end laptops mainly used for browsing could start having heat problems”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The issue also affects YouTube Premium subscribers using AdBlocker on other sites, frustrating users who expect an ad-free experience in line with YouTube’s Terms of Service.<\/p>\n

User JotaroKujoxXx mentioned their laptop’s unusually high activity, while another user suspected storage issues. Sarah James, a Guides Writer, observed a 15-18% performance drop when using the extension with Premium.<\/p>\n

YouTube’s communications manager, Christopher Lawton, indicated that such issues will persist as the platform enhances its ad-blocker detection. Consequently, YouTube often gets blamed for any extension-related problems, though in some cases, it may not be directly responsible.<\/p>\n

Lawton told PCGamer:\u00a0“Loading delays experienced by Adblock and AdBlock Plus users are not caused by our ad blocker detection efforts.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin also commented about the issue on Twitter:\u00a0“I investigated a bit the performance regressions, and the cause is many distinct code paths, [which] affect many sites.”<\/p>\n

“Since it affects both Adblock Plus and AdBlock, the performance regression hits harder those who had the bad idea to use both at once,” he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 01\/17\/2024 – 05:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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