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0x3f • last Tuesday at 4:40 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Does it not still suck at blocking YouTube video ads? As in, you get a delay before videos start playing.

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whywhywhywhy • last Tuesday at 4:47 PM

That's not sucking at blocking thats YouTube intentionally adding a delay to make it seem like their experience is degraded when it isn't. If you turn the slider up to full it only happens very rarely.

I'm sure this will all change eventually though and YouTube has a loophole planned so ad blocking on manifest 2.0 is impossible.

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wilkystyle • last Tuesday at 4:53 PM

I don't even have this issue with uBlock Origin Lite on mobile Safari. I'm fully browser-based on mobile for YouTube these days. No ads, no delay.