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That's the reason I disable it and install Ghostery instead. uBlock Origin makes youtube videos stutter at about the 2 second mark on my Raspberry Pi 3's (I don
by ksaj 6y ago
That's the reason I disable it and install Ghostery instead. uBlock Origin makes youtube videos stutter at about the 2 second mark on my Raspberry Pi 3's (I don't know about the rpi 4's because I remove uBlock and install Ghostery as a default nowadays) and also my laptop, which runs Windows instead of Linux (so it's not just an OS issue.)
Ghostery doesn't have as many bells and whistles, but it does greatly minimize the main annoyances out there, and it doesn't slow anything down noticeably.
It might all be a moot point by this time, since Youtube has changed how they load in such a way that it stutters no matter what because it is so busy downloading absolutely every item on a page all at one time instead of prioritizing the video stream like it did about a decade ago (back when you could pause a video and it would download fully even while not yet playing, thus avoiding the bottlenecks altogether...).
Ironically that puts me back to pausing everything first just to give all the useless off-screen crap enough bandwidth to load without ruining the video experience.
No matter how much faster technology gets, they find a way to make it more and more sluggish every time.
- surround 6y agoTry disabling generic cosmetic filters in uBlock.
- branon 6y agoGhostery is the one which reports your browsing history to advertisers (by default/opt-out), and also shows advertisements of its own. Not recommended over uBO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
- ksaj 6y agoI haven't seen any ads, except Twitter's sponsored posts. It is possible/probable I set the right setting back when. Since Youtube chokes anyway nowadays (I did manage to stave it off for a few years), I might as well go back to uBO.
- 4rollingstock 6y agoEven with uBO, Twitter's ads still show up for me.
- ksaj 6y agoThe ads I get on Twitter are at least related to my interests, and sometimes are new things that are right up my alley (like new Rasbperry Pi gizmos, and that Turing Tumble game), so I don't even mind. They must have a lot of advertisers to be able to be that specific.
- smichel17 6y agoYou may have better luck using vlc / mpv to play YouTube videos on the pi.
- pythux 6y agoFor the record, this section of Wikipedia seems pretty outdated. Ghostrank has been removed from Ghostery in 2017 after Cliqz acquired Ghostery and the extension was open-sourced. (Disclaimer: I worked there at the time)
- gorhill 6y ago> uBlock Origin makes youtube videos stutter at about the 2 second mark on my Raspberry Pi 3's If uBO is really responsible for this, you should probably check the box "Ignore generic cosmetic filters" in "Filter lists" pane. For instance, this is the default in Firefox for Android, I consider it's best for less powerful devices.
- ksaj 6y agoI'm going to try that. It's definitely uBO because when I replaced it with Ghostery, the problem was gone. That's the same on all my pre-rpi4 devices and my laptop. If that fixes it, I'm surprised they don't just set it up that way by default in Raspbian. But now it'll be hard to tell, because Youtube has changed the way it downloads stuff in the background without prioritizing the stream. uBO definitely blocked a whole lot more noise than Ghostery does.