Sunday, August 24, 2025

I hope I'm wrong about this but I think Youtube is doing it again. Spiking CPU usage for UBO/FF users.

Watched a vid, 360p (so lower than average), ambient mode off, nothing else except the video and that's basically it, and my PC was humming louder than usual until I paused. Then I ran it again, went to about:processes, and noticed strange spikes in the youtube tab, going anywhere from 13% to 100% and fluctuating randomly in terms of CPU percentage. The memory used goes as far as 1GB, which I also don't think is normal especially if I'm watching a 360p video.

I really hope I'm wrong but I think that since the popup thingies aren't working in their forever wars against adblockers, they've resorted to bloating the site's usage for adblockers.

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