Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
The sad thing is, I consider this an upgrade. I’ll take a moment to breathe and maybe break out of the negative spiral that is modern internet use.
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How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?
I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.
I do, on desktop anyway
Little do these companies know that poor people know how to be patient and older people remember the days of free ad supported internet dialup via cds, so this is not new and people will continue where business models fail.
It’s like when a teacher can’t target the bad kid so they punish the whole class instead.
Still illegal
5 seconds of silence vs 30+ seconds of ads. Tough choice Google, tough choice.
Tee hee. I don’t use UserTuber.
Oh wow, I just opened lemmy because a YouTube video was taking extra time to open in Firefox lol.
So what? I have to wait about 5 seconds anyway because I have a slow internet connection. No big deal. 5 seconds of not watching a youtube video is probably good for you.
Whatever you say Google. Hey EU, Google wants to chat with you.
I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I’m in Canada and I’ve noticed none of this. No video load delays, no anti ad-blocker pop ups, none of it. I’m not going to stop using Firefox or Ublock Origin though.
This delay has happened on Brave browser too, it’s not FF specific. But it’s pathetic either way.
I mean, if they really wanted to show you ads, they could just switch the returned stream when the video player calls for certain chunk, then when that ad is done playing, switch back to the original stream. The user experience would be basically like watching TV.
I wish I could make YouTube “experience suboptimal revenue” in retaliation, but sadly I can’t block more than 100% of ads.
Freetube on PCs, LibreTube on Android. Block that, fuck-o.
