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WHEN YOU HAVE a slow internet connection, there’s nothing worse than having to wait for a YouTube video to play.
For one, it takes ages for it to load up, it’s not sure what quality to set the video and once it starts playing, it hasn’t loaded enough to play to the end without interruption.
If this is the case, then it may be worth downloading something like SmartVideo (Chrome and Firefox) which gives you control of YouTube buffering.
It has a number of handy features such as allowing it to decide when to start your video based on your download speeds, deciding how much of the video should be loaded before it starts playing and notifying you when your video has reached that point.
This applies to YouTube videos on the main site and those embedded on another site (like this one for example).
It doesn’t solve the problem entirely, but if you find yourself regularly waiting for a video to load up, then this will make things a little easier for yourself.
SmartVideo for YouTube (Chrome and Firefox)
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Ad blocker helps too.
Adblocker is a must for YouTube, way too many ads these days.
Ohhh, that’s very cheeky. The ads pay for the fun
With my internet connection, the ads take so long to buffer themselves that I don’t get to see the video in the first place. Adblock is a godsend for me!
Also don’t forget to use Hide Ad Blocker
Anything for smartphones or tablets as not many use “computers ” anymore
Unfortunately not. Unless someone develops a dedicated ad blocker browser. Most mobile browsers, chrome and FF included, don’t allow extensions. In fairness, if you look at the source code, they’re incredibly fine tuned apps as they are. Opening them up to third party developers would be a disaster. I’ve written browser extensions for the desktop and it’s easy to cause a memory leak.
Perhaps there’s a market for an ad blocker browser? Would you pay for it?
Just move your house and job to a place that has fibre.
Problem sorted.
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