If your PC has felt slower than usual while you watch YouTube, that isn’t a figment of your imagination – YouTube is deliberately causing the issue in a bid for you to get rid of your trusty ad blocker.
It’s a cruel tactic forYouTubeto apply, especially considering that YouTube Premium costs £12.99 a month. That cost on top ofNetflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ soon adds up to an expense too many, leaving viewers with no other alternative but to use an ad blocker.
But even that sanctuary has been breached.
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Not only is the site purposefully slowing down video buffing but it’s also “killing” Chrome. “One thing to add also, this messes up the resources on the computer as a whole. It just kills Chrome, it seems,” posted one annoyed user in response to the subreddit calling YouTube out.
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Frustratingly, it seems that the only way to avoid these lags is to change your settings and remove the ad blocker. A move that few will want to do when YouTube’s content is now packed full of ads, often at inconvenient moments during your viewing. You could, of course, try using a different browser. However, for some people that simply isn’t an option.
So if yourPChas been running “like a f**king jet” for the last few days, this could be the reason why. Instead of “deleting sht randomly” believing it’s a storage issue, check out your CPU usage while using YouTube – you might just get a nasty surprise.
Topics:Youtube,PC,Real Life,Microsoft
