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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by hedora on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:33AM (#45302127)
Sure it is. They’ve done crap like make firefox or safari run hot on other Google properties in the past.

Is it incompetence or sabotage? Who knows. The first rule of sabotage is to be indistinguishable from incompetence.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by crazygringo on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:45AM (#45302239)
Incompetence is by definition not intentional, and sabotage is the action of a rogue employee, not corporate strategy. A corporation can't intentionally sabotage itself, by definition.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:53AM (#45302334)
They're sabotaging non-Chrome browsers to drive people toward their platform with the strategically weakened extension API.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by crazygringo on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:15AM (#45302578)
I don't think that has any connection to the subject under discussion, which is about whether YouTube CPU performance would lead people to turn off adblockers. Not about getting people to switch to Chrome.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by Shared404 on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:47AM (#45302949)
I believe their point is that people switching to Chrome _is_ turning off their adblocker.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by crazygringo on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:17PM (#45304736)
Why would it? uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads on YouTube just fine on Chrome.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU ... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:56PM (#45308251)
Do I hear boiling water?
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