{"id":180732,"date":"2024-01-17T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-though-despite-the-companys-past-behaviour-its-probably-adb"},"modified":"2024-01-17T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:22:22","slug":"its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-though-despite-the-companys-past-behaviour-its-probably-adb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-though-despite-the-companys-past-behaviour-its-probably-adb","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not just you: YouTube is slowing down your PC if you have AdBlock installed by making your CPU sweat\u2014though despite the company\u2019s past behaviour, it\u2019s probably AdBlock\u2019s fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-not-just-you-youtube-is-slowing-down-your-pc-if-you-have-adblock-installed-by-making-your-cpu-sweat-though-despite-the-companys-past-behaviour-its-probably-adb3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From what I could see the increase was pretty consistent\u2014so not a dangerous spike\u2014but lower-end laptops mainly used for browsing could start having heat problems. At best it\u2019s inconvenient and annoying.<\/p>\n<p>This has led to troubleshooting paranoia, as sudden and unexplained performance dips can be a sign of hardware problems. User JotaroKujoxXx says they were \u201cwondering why my laptop ran like a fucking jet for the last few days\u201d, while another commenter replies: \u201cYeah I\u2019ve been deleting shit randomly thinking it was my storage space problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The slow-down also appears to be impacting users who are subscribed to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/youtube\/comments\/195octe\/comment\/khokggl\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/youtube\/comments\/195octe\/comment\/khokggl\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3\">YouTube Premium<\/a> while using AdBlocker for other websites, which is a problem\u2014seeing as a subscription is a way to avoid ads without violating ToS, causing some users to feel hard done by. Our Guides Writer <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/author\/sarah-james\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/author\/sarah-james\/\/\">Sarah James<\/a> tested the extension with Premium, and noted an increase of about 15\u201318%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From what I could see the increase was pretty consistent\u2014so not a dangerous spike\u2014but lower-end laptops mainly used for browsing could start having heat problems. At best it\u2019s inconvenient and annoying. This has led to troubleshooting paranoia, as sudden and unexplained performance dips can be a sign of hardware problems. User JotaroKujoxXx says they were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}