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DaveLembke

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Youtube and adblock plus - long delay before video starts
« on: October 23, 2016, 09:23:59 AM »
Firefox & AdBlock Plus and Youtube video delays

Over the past month I have noticed long delays between when clicking on a video to play and the video playing. I have plenty of bandwidth with 25/5 mbps broadband internet package and no one is using up all the bandwidth when this happens. Two different computers have the same issue. It use to work where you click on the video and the ad isnt played and the video plays within about 2 seconds or less. Now its like there is a 8 to 20 second delay or longer on the rare occasion with a dash cartwheel and then the video finally plays. I gave it some time to see if it would correct itself and it isnt, so figured I'd check here to see if anyone else has had issues like this.

Was wondering if anyone else running AdBlock Plus with Firefox was running into this issue of long delay and cartwheel before the video will play from youtube?

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Re: Youtube and adblock plus - long delay before video starts
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2016, 11:04:17 AM »
If you turn off AdBlock Plus, does the problem stop? 

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    Re: Youtube and adblock plus - long delay before video starts
    « Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 02:59:32 AM »
    Try these:
    1.disable "allow some non-intrusive advertising" - try again
    2.disable all other extensions, try again with only ABP enabled

    3.if it still happens, reset firefox.