Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?

Post by imcritic » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 2:06 PM UTC

Forgeties79 wrote: post #8

busterarm wrote: post #3

This started happening on one of my older computers recently and I had to actually disable hardware acceleration to get the audio to stop being out of sync. The tradeoff for that has been noticeable frame dropping. I even added an extension to force h264 but there's no difference. It can play video no problem on other sites or in VLC. It's just YouTube and just on that PC...That PC can run Doom Eternal. Video content…

Given their actions the last two years or so unfortunately the default assumption is (reasonably) “probably something intentional to get people to stop doing something they don’t want, like using ad blockers.”

Post by mwkaufma » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 2:11 PM UTC

RisingFusion wrote: post #4

If you have an adblocker it might be intentional.

Post by camhart » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

Post by busterarm » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

imcritic wrote: post #11

Forgeties79 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given their actions the last two years or so unfortunately the default assumption is (reasonably) “probably something intentional to get people to stop doing something they don’t want, like using ad blockers.”

Sometimes it's just browser GPU driver issues.

Post by PlotCitizen » Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

jjallen wrote: post #10

I have not and don’t run an adblocker fwiw.