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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 10 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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[-] authed@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

I block ads and havent noticed that

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

I did notice on ublock. Weird black screen for a few seconds and then content loads.

[-] Alivrah@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I think Google underestimates how much I hate ads. I'll gladly take the black screen, thank you.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i remember back when hulu was first starting.. free with ads. at times all you got was a black screen with a message about adblockers instead of the ads, and for the same length, which was still better than having them.

you could also just run the title to the end, then skip-back to the beginning and not have ads for the replay. so i just ran on two PCs. i'd watch a 'replay' on one pc without ads while getting the next title 'ready' on the other--flipping back and forth with a kvm.

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 10 months ago

I saw a clip of it happening on Safari.

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