Yes, it stays off for all videos.If I turn Ambient mode off in one video will that apply for all other videos? I can't see an option in settings on YouTube.
Yes, it stays off for all videos.If I turn Ambient mode off in one video will that apply for all other videos? I can't see an option in settings on YouTube.
Use Brave brower instead, no more ads or annoyances on youtube.
Ads are like someone stabbing you in the eye, I refuse to allow for any ads anywhere in my home...
I can't understand why anyone would use inferior ad ridden brwosers instead. Perhaps the sync between phones/pc's, but Brave allows sync as wel...
I only regret not moving way from Chrome sooner. Firefox I also dumped a while ago for a different Brave profile: it was slow as hell in comparison and indeed, FF+adblock issues on YT,
It's not Firefox that's the problem, but Google deliberatly making it worse.The fastest and most ad-free browser is crap?
Firefox is much slower, and gives youtube issues, for me that is enough reason to avoid it.
Everyone wants to make money somewhere, I tried looking for reasons not use Brave, but couldn't find any...
The crypto thing I completely ignore, I've never even noticed anything in the past weeks of use...
As for telemetry, there are far worse offenders, both Google and MS Windows and Samsung create way more more telemetry (which is mostly being blocked by my PiHole...).
I would go as far as to call Firefox + adblocker unusable on Youtube, just open 15 video's you want to watch in new tabs and it crawls to a halt, even with a fast cpu, gpu and 64gb of ram... While Brave handles it effortlessly.
I only care about 2 things: Speed/responsivity and I do not want to see any ads on websites ever, in any video player, etc... The rest is unimportant for me. So far no other browser has given me a decent YT or adult site experience but Brave.
Privacy or safety is not a factor for my personal home computer and it never will be. At worst they can steal my payment information and I will get it back from International card services/Visa/Mastercard...
Finally this is fixed in v136.0.2 after 14 days of me complaining about it on here. Firefox no longer prompts for my master password on each launch.v136 has annoyed me slightly. Each time I launch Firefox, I am taken to my homepage which is google.co.uk. I don't care to use Firefox Home and I've done this for as long as I can remember - Google is a simple homepage, even if it is probably seen as old school these days.
Ever since v136 installed today, when I launch Firefox I am asked for my master password for Firefox. I can only think this is because I'm not signed into Google, again another one of my stubborn choices I wish to maintain - for all Google probably tracks us all anyway, I'd rather not link my data to a Google account where possible.
The fastest and most ad-free browser is crap?
Firefox is much slower, and gives youtube issues, for me that is enough reason to avoid it.
Everyone wants to make money somewhere, I tried looking for reasons not use Brave, but couldn't find any...
The crypto thing I completely ignore, I've never even noticed anything in the past weeks of use...
As for telemetry, there are far worse offenders, both Google and MS Windows and Samsung create way more more telemetry (which is mostly being blocked by my PiHole...).
I would go as far as to call Firefox + adblocker unusable on Youtube, just open 15 video's you want to watch in new tabs and it crawls to a halt, even with a fast cpu, gpu and 64gb of ram... While Brave handles it effortlessly.
I only care about 2 things: Speed/responsivity and I do not want to see any ads on websites ever, in any video player, etc... The rest is unimportant for me. So far no other browser has given me a decent YT or adult site experience but Brave.
Privacy or safety is not a factor for my personal home computer and it never will be. At worst they can steal my payment information and I will get it back from International card services/Visa/Mastercard...
Maybe you didn't look very far...Everyone wants to make money somewhere, I tried looking for reasons not use Brave, but couldn't find any...
Maybe you didn't look very far...
Their level of trust is through the floor IMO.
Why are you opening 15 tabs of YT videos at once?
Create a playlist maybe?
I've got 32GB of RAM and 38 FF tabs open, (general browsing on 1, all my POE bookmarks on a 2nd iteration) and i've just added 15 YT tabs making a total of 53 tabs, and FF is running all of them flawlessly.
Sounds like a user problem to me.
And yes, I also open playlists with 1000+ video's and these crawl Firefox to a halt as well (just open a playlist (overview) with 4000 video's, scroll to video 2000 with ctrl+end until you're there (yes this makes youtube load the next x video's every so often), Brave will reach that point about 3x as fast as Firefox and will crawl to a halt).
How do you get the whole playlist to load in the first place? For me if I load my likes it only loads the first 100 and I have to ctrl+ end for each 100 extra to load for a while.
Once you have gone over 2000 the loading becomes slower and slower in firefox...
Keep ctrl+ end pressed until you're at say 2000/4500 video's, and it's still fast?
For me the slowdown becomes noticable around video 700-800 in FF while around 1400-1500 in Brave, and yes even brave gets slower and slower after a while...
Assumptions and Methodology
- Ad-Blocking Requirement: Only browsers with built-in ad-blocking (e.g., Brave, Opera) or those compatible with uBlock Origin/Adblock Plus (e.g., Chrome, Firefox) are included. Browsers without ad-blocking or extension support are excluded.
- Speed Focus: Speed scores are derived from synthetic benchmarks like Speedometer 2.0 (responsiveness), JetStream 2 (JavaScript performance), and MotionMark (graphics rendering), averaged into a composite "speed score" normalized to a 0-100 scale for simplicity. These are estimates based on historical data and trends up to 2025.
- Normalization: Since raw benchmark scores vary across tests, I’ve synthesized them into a relative ranking. Higher scores indicate faster performance.
- Environment: Assumes a modern mid-range system (e.g., Intel i5, 16GB RAM, Windows 11 or macOS) with uBlock Origin installed where applicable, as it’s lighter and faster than ABP.
- Limitations: Exact scores are illustrative, not definitive, due to the absence of a single 2025-specific benchmark covering all 20 browsers with ad-blocking enabled.
Top 20 Browsers Ranked by Speed (with Ad-Blocking)
Here’s the table, sorted by estimated speed score:
Rank Browser Speed Score (0-100) Ad-Blocking Method Notes 1 Brave 95 Built-in Chromium-based, optimized for speed and privacy, minimal overhead. 2 Google Chrome 92 uBlock Origin Fastest raw performance, slightly impacted by extension overhead. 3 Microsoft Edge 90 uBlock Origin Chromium-based, excellent hardware acceleration, lightweight. 4 Opera 88 Built-in Built-in ad-blocker, strong performance, slight bloat from features. 5 Vivaldi 86 uBlock Origin Highly customizable, Chromium-based, minor speed trade-off. 6 Safari 85 uBlock Origin (macOS) Top graphics performance, limited by extension ecosystem. 7 Firefox 83 uBlock Origin Strong JS performance, lags in graphics rendering. 8 Chromium 82 uBlock Origin Open-source Chrome base, slightly less optimized. 9 Samsung Internet 80 uBlock Origin (Android) Fast on mobile, Chromium-based, limited desktop presence. 10 UC Browser 78 Built-in Speed-focused, but privacy concerns and bloat reduce efficiency.