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Emir Sinan Ökmen

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Original poster
Oct 30, 2020
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I use Macbook Pro 16’ (2019). When I try to watch something from Youtube, the video freezes but the audio continues or vice versa. This happens few times a day. The more time I spend on Youtube, more frequently I face this problem. The laptop also heats up and “kernel task” shows up in Activity Monitor and gradually uses more and more cpu. This happened regardless of the Mac Os I used( Catalina and Big Sur) The laptop is 9 months old and this issue started 1 or 2 months ago. What could be the problem?
 
I have this problem as well. 2015 MBP, macOS 11.2, Safari.

I'm switching browsers for youtube.
 
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