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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by Vincent@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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."

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[-] IDew@lemm.ee 174 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Even though it doesn't apply for me (praise Freetube and Grayjay!) I'd rather waste 5 second looking at black than any ad ever

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

Commercial breaks were when you muted the television and had about two minutes to go to the kitchen or use the bathroom. Even if it's forced, I'm not watching them.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 49 points 11 months ago

It's funny they think 5 seconds of no content is worst of 10~30 seconds of ads.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I think the goal it to make the user wonder "hum, looks like it's broken" hoping they disable adblocker during troubleshooting. I am not convinced at all about the effectivness of this measure, but it seems they are just trying anything.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Most of the time, the commercial's volume is much louder than whatever content you are watching. So ya, I'd rather have nothing...

[-] statist43@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago

Yeah haha.. They really think we would hat it if there is not a ear busting sound which tells you to buy sth for at least 5 sec.

The 5s black screen is automatically becoming a video

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