The recent issue of slow loading times on YouTube’s website has been attributed to the popular ad-blocking software. However, it has now been revealed that the problem was not actually caused by YouTube itself, but rather by a bug in the AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions, which are both owned by the same company, Eyeo GmbH from Germany. According to 9to5google, these ad-blocking tools experienced a significant increase in CPU usage when users accessed YouTube and certain other websites. Fortunately, the bug has since been addressed and an update has been released to rectify the issue. Users should no longer encounter the same issue moving forward.
In response to this, YouTube has clarified that they were not involved in the slow-loading issue. It is important to note that YouTube’s measures for detecting ad-blockers do not employ this particular approach.
TLDR: The slow loading times on YouTube’s website were not caused by YouTube itself, but rather by a bug in the AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions. Eyeo GmbH, the company behind these extensions, has addressed the issue and released an update to fix it. YouTube’s measures for detecting ad-blockers are not causing the slow-loading issue.
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