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

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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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[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

Freetube on PCs, LibreTube on Android. Block that, fuck-o.

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[-] Willer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Youtube be like: "Theyre the same people"

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not experiencing that issue on Grayjay 👍

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Piped or FreeTube on desktop.

LibreTube on mobile. SmartTube on Android TV.

I haven't had to deal with Google's crap in a while. All of these have no ads and have Sponsorblock built-in. I do miss the algorithm's suggestions but I do discover new content creators through Nebula (and FreeTube has decent related video suggestions in my experience).

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