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I noticed this myself as I had been using Firefox with ublock to mostly listen to music on youtube.

It seems like there's a sometimes-auto-downgrading where any video above 360 p gets throttled and causes buffering. I've recently been trying out a Chrome extension called Clear Skies which has been working well. It's not an adblocker but it does hide and skip ads and avoids the performance hit that I was seeing previously when viewing youtube with Firefox.

I've been using a Chrome extension called Clear Skies for the past few months. It skips ads on youtube.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

Doesn't seem to be affected by the issue reported here.

I've been recently happily using Chrome with the Clear Skies extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

makes youtube usable.

For every other website, use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon.

About a month or so ago I started noticing degraded performance on youtube when using Firefox (even with all browser addons disabled) so my current approach, just for youtube, is to use Chrome with the Clear Skies ad skipper extension, which gets me good performance and no ads.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

If you like this, you should check out the Chrome extension Clear Skies https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clear-skies/jkiagen...

I've been using it for over a month and now I pretty much can't stand youtube without it.

I started using an adskipper Chrome extension called Clear Skies.

I use Firefox and ublock Origin for every other website but I use Chrome/ Clear Skies just for youtube because those dogs are blocking me with Firefox/ublock and even with ublock disabled they are nerfing Firefox by throttling it to make the experience unbearably laggy.

Here's what I do using Chrome (b/c youtube nerfs Firefox by throttling it)

Add these extensions:

Unhook - Hide youtube recommendations and other garbage

Clear Skies - Ad skipper

Ah.. youtube is usable again

You probably already do, but you should use uBlock Origin or the chrome extension Clear Skies to skip ads...... .| .|

Also, get outside more.

My chrome extension Clear Skies is still working as expected so... the weather's still great from my view. :)

I still do.

I just started using a minimal ad skipper chrome extension called Clear Skies and youtube is back to being usable.