A few days ago, user complaints started to surface claiming this YouTube was not only very slow for thembut they also had problems at the interface level and response. Things as simple as clicking a button on a media player could become an ordeal due to the platform’s slow and erratic performance, and no one knew exactly what was going on.

All indications were that it might be due to a problem stemming from Google’s new attempt to fight ad blockers, and they started blaming it for YouTube working so poorly and so slowly. The truth is, in the end, Mountain View will be proven innocent, and that The problem is with the update that AdBlock received.

This update in your version 5.17.0 creates a conflict that affects the performance and proper functioning of YouTube. So we will have to wait for the release of an update that will fix this issue.

If you use YouTube very often and are desperately waiting, this is confirmed other blockers do not cause these problemsso you can leave AdBlock and switch to another one.

While I was writing this article, I saw some sources saying that an AdBlock update that addresses this issue has already started rolling out, but I can confirm that I haven’t found it available yetSo be patient. I don’t want to end without reminding you that while it’s true that YouTube has been trying to deal with ad blockers for some time, its parent company Google finally realized that You can’t do that by constantly looking for a head-on collision.

For this reason, he decided to back away from one of his last measures, which, as we told you at the time, did not slow down YouTube, but rather He blocked it right away after playing just three videos, forces us to remove the ad blocker if we would like to continue using the service. It was for this reason that I found it strange that they hit the same stone twice more, and as you can see in the end, the fault was with AdBlock itself.