So somehow so far I've miraculously managed to avoid youtube breaking from ad blocking.
Using uBlock and some tampermonkey script (and NoScript but I doubt it plays a role here)
Lately I've noticed when I open a video, the video loads 3 times before loading finishes. Some videos I cannot watch at all because "embedding to external sites is disabled" even though I opened them on YT. If I press play before the video finished loading 3 times, the video will start playing after the 3rd load but there will be a desynched audio track on top of the playing video's audio track (like I started playing the first loading video and the audio track kept rolling while yt reloads the video 2 times and then starts playing the final loading of the video with it's audio over the still running audio from the first load).
All of this I can deal with but...
...the past couple days I've noticed my suggested videos barely change. Youtube keeps suggesting the same videos over and over even if I just watched them. And with the behaviours above (especially the not being able to play videos that are restricted from embedding) I'm starting to feel like the adblocking scripts might actually interfere with YT reliably realizing what I have already watched. Comparable to how when I watch an embedded video on reddit it never seemed to mess with my suggestion algorythm as if yt doesn't register that my acc watched it.
Am I going mad or is this something others have noticed as well? I do get some new suggestions from time to time but it feels fishy as hell.
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