Subj : YouTube says it isnt causing CPU spikes for ad block users inste To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Jan 16 2024 16:15:05 YouTube says it isnt causing CPU spikes for ad block users instead, it's your ad blockers fault, but a fix is coming Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:10:22 +0000 Description: YouTube isn't causing performance issues for ad blockers, instead it appears to be an issue with Adblock and Adblock Plus. FULL STORY ====================================================================== In recent days, YouTube has been accused of throttling the performance of its own platform as the latest tactic in its war against ad blockers. But YouTube says this categorically isnt the case. Instead, it looks like the reason for the slowdown lies with the ad blockers themselves and a fix is on the way. First, lets get you up to speed. YouTube doesnt like people using ad blockers on its site and its tried a few different methods to get them to stop. This includes a three-strike video policy and annoying five-second delays on videos . So when people noticed that watching YouTube videos while using an ad blocker was causing their PCs CPU usage to spike and subsequently make older rigs have performance problems they reasonably assumed this was yet another ad blocker countermeasure . In response to the criticism YouTube has released a statement (via PCGamer ) saying categorically that any loading delays ad blocker users are experiencing are not caused by our ad blocker detection efforts. Okay, so what gives? Taking YouTube at its word, does that mean some people are just imagining things when they say their PCs are having CPU troubles? No. There are definitely problems, they just arent YouTubes fault at least not this time. Adblock Plus was having trouble In a Twitter thread (now X) uBlock founder Raymond Hill explains that the performance issues are seemingly caused by Adblock Plus version 3.22 & AdBlock version 5.17 the latest iterations of both software. As he points out, the problems are exclusive to Adblock Plus spinoffs rather than all ad blockers (uBlock Origin for example was having no problems), and affect a wider array of sites than just YouTube. Adblock Plus is the source of the performance problems (Image credit: Adblock Plus) The breakdown gets quite technical, but the short summary is that sites like YouTube and others that update dynamically are triggering troublesome code paths in Adblock and Adblock Plus. When you boot up one of these sites the adblocking software starts performing actions that use an unnecessarily large amount of your CPU's processing power. Hill adds that the bug would hit people who use both AdBlock and Adblock Plus particularly hard as their individual issues would compound on one another. So YouTube isnt causing the problems, its just a very popular catalyst for setting off underlying issues that currently exist in AdBlock and Adblock Plus. Thankfully, fixes to the glitches should now be rolling out. An update on a bug report for Adblock Plus says a fix has been published as part of update 3.22.1 though it may take a few days for it to pass extension store reviews and hit every user. This may also solve similar CPU issues that Chrome users have been experiencing when accessing YouTube while using Adblock programs . While you wait for the fix you can either disable the program, or try one of the other best ad blockers thats unaffected by the glitch if you dont want to put up with ads even for even a day or two. You might also like It's not just you YouTube ads on smart TVs are getting painfully long Dont make these 5 big mistakes when using Windows 11 Windows 11 remains an unloved OS but why won't people upgrade? ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/youtube-says-it-isnt-causing -cpu-spikes-for-ad-block-users-instead-its-your-ad-blockers-fault-but-a-fix-is -coming --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .