I have not and don’t run an adblocker fwiw.
Just out here raw-dogging the internet...
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Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#112Livechats are particularly bad.
For desktop, the extension HyperChat was made to address whatever programming is leading the livechat system to blowing up your CPU.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think that has any connection to the subject under discussion, which is about whether YouTube CPU performance would lead people to turn off adblockers. Not about getting people to switch to Chrome.
I believe their point is that people switching to Chrome _is_ turning off their adblocker.
Why would it? uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads on YouTube just fine on Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you mean to reply to a different comment? Mine didn't say anything about psychology. But you do seem to be strengthening my comment -- when YouTube was implementing a 3 video limit for users blocking ads, they were doing so with a big huge message: "It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback will be blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled." That makes sense as a strat…
Musing on how a message will be subjectively experienced by users to the point of ruling out explanations based on an assumed subjective reaction, and assuming complex software development outcomes are tied to that specific strategy, is in fact about psychology on multiple levels, despite your protestation to the contrary. Specifically it's armchair psychology that underestimates complexity. Most of my examples cut a…
Not really.
It's pretty common sense to say that YouTube CPU usage will not be linked to adblocking for most people. Any more than a sunny day is linked to what you ate for dinner last night.
It's not psychology. It's just straightforward common sense.
You seem to be trying to obfuscate something here that is really quite simple.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#115Yes, happens to me in the last few days.
I thought it was Firefox going bananas after some update, but I’m glad to find out it’s just another user hostile ploy from the owning class
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's intentional on YouTubes end, they aim to serve more bitrate-efficient codecs wherever possible, even if it's a high burden on the client due to a lack of hardware acceleration. They'll only fall back to older codecs if the client is completely incapable of handling the modern ones. It's annoying but at their scale it no doubt saves them a shitload of bandwidth.
It also encourages users to upgrade to newer hardware since older devices are known to get slower as they age due to software increasing complexity and hardware mitigations (yes, they are also for phones). Most users will just blame the device. Not saying that is the cause of this slow down, but since the mpeg4 patents don't expire till 2027(?) (and one of those patents prevents hardware decode on Linux) we as a soci…
My laptop is held together by Gaffe tape. There ain’t no upgrade in sight
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#117No other context, huh? Not even browser and OS? If youtube itself was stuttering, 100M daily users would flip out. So narrow it down. For example if you add the word Edge to your search you might find settings like Video SuperResolution that can tax your CPU https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1bcmmdo/micr...
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#118If you have an adblocker it might be intentional.
That's not plausible. If someone sees, oh YouTube is making my computer hot, the last thing that's going to occur to them is, "wait let me try turning off my adblocker." When corporations try to change people's incentives, they are obvious about it, so people know what to change. In contrast, changing CPU usage on video playback for people who use adblockers and then not telling anyone is... just not a strategy that…
You part of the Armchair Psycholologist Masterrace?
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m sorry but big tech doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.
Google does - Google search and maps have gotten objectively worse over the past 2 years. At least in Canada. I have 38 locations in my (huge) city saved in Google maps and it breaks when I ask it to find a way from point A to point B. Works fine when logged out. Maps also put traffic signals where there are none, and while finding shortest path it stopped putting weights to traffic signals. So you could have it rout…
Have you told them yet?
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