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This is a bug in AdBlock (Plus). uBlock Origin is not affected.

https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/...

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Time to invite again people to replace any adblock with uBlock Origin

Or not. Google probably targets the most popular adblocking solutions first.

uBO has the most people working on providing fixes though, and they get them out pretty fast. I've never ran into a situation where I couldn't get YouTube working again by clearing my filter cache so far.

The interesting thing is that they removed that option in the latest version

It's perfectly fine and valid to question the pile of JS code executing in Youtube webpages, but in this specific instance the performance issues are caused by ABP/AdBlock. The issue has been acknowledged by the developers[1]. It affects only the latest version of both blockers, not previous versions, so it makes no sense to keep speculating Google is at the root of that specific issue.

Out of curiosity I investigated these performance issues myself using profiling sessions[2] and the faulty code is definitely in the latest versions of these extensions.

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[1] https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/...

[2] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746543688975581604

As always, thank you.

  in this specific instance the performance issues are caused by ABP/AdBlock

Welp I use uBO not AB/ABP and Youtube's been acting up for me for a few days.

Horrible journalism and simple rage-bait. I wonder if anyone will update these articles or maybe even issue an apology for slander now that they know what was the cause.

Tech journalists mostly just suck. They barely understand what they are writing about. I think their industry resents us taking away revenue from them, so they write these ridiculous articles to stoke FUD against tech.

I absolutely can't wait to see these people automated out of a job. I have zero doubts GPT-4 would have produced a better article given the same source information.

I do find this to be somewhat true as well. Most tech journalists make news for everyday people and not really for people and not for technical professionals. There's some holdouts but its few and far in-between.

Who knew Gell-Mann amnesia could go malignant?

First time I've heard of this. It's an eye-opener. It also makes me even more cynical.

It should. It's the same cognitive error one so often sees software engineers display, in this case reflexively, while speaking with undue confidence outside the field.

Yep. Tech journalists are usually as versed in what they're talking about as people selling tech in retail stores.

Please, a regression bug in an extension wouldn't get that many page views. Better post a slanderous hit piece on a major website, that will pull in the clicks.

And there was a HN post 8 hours before this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998419

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