Ad blockers began to slow down YouTube – Kommersant

Problems with the operation of the YouTube video service over the past few days have been associated with the actions of ad blockers – about this stated on YouTube. According to a representative of the service, the company does not artificially slow down the platform; the problem is precisely the latest updates of AdBlock and AdBlock Plus, which can cause a decrease in performance not only on YouTube.

Users of the YouTube video service and AdBlock ad blockers have begun to encounter problems with the platform over the past few days – videos loaded more slowly, a page reload was required to open full-screen mode, and in general it felt like the computer was slowing down.

YouTube previously released an update that allows users to temporarily suspend publishing comments on your videos. Also service testing a new feature thanks to which users will be able to monitor the update of views and likes counters in real time.

Evgeniy Fedunenko