Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-01-17 12:27:52 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 469A98E9DAF276D47D620849A4EB243DCD2BE4CCF94D996E7661ED889CCAB4EA
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Original Note:
Recent performance issues on the YouTube website were caused by a bug in the popular advertisement blocking extensions AdBlock and AdBlock Plus. YouTube itself did not intentionally slow down the webpage speed for users who block ads. https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1727415603 https://www.neowin.net/news/adblock-google-did-not-slow-down-and-lag-youtube-performance-with-ad-blocker-on/
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