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by InCityDreams 918 days ago
'Google has stopped...', or 'Google no longer...', 'Google have removed'.

As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed, looks like it's time to get a new email provider (as well) .

@ yahoo seem to have few(er?) problems.

There are probably others. Can anyone recommend a good search engine?

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> As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed

uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger should take care of it. I've never seen any ads on YouTube (except the ones the stream includes inherently).

It's unusably slow on desktop Firefox with UBO active. This was not the case for a long time. They're degrading the experience on non-Chrome browsers intentionally.
I'm not experiencing that. Granted, I have 16 GB of RAM, and browsers are memory hogs, but my CPU is a Core i5-7600K with no overclocking, so not something super-strong.

Are you sure your experience is common rather than anecdotal?

Mine is on MacOS.
I use Devuan GNU/Linux, with Cinnamon as the desktop environment. Maybe there's some MacOS (or *BSD) specific issue?