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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 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did we function before youtube. besides music videos I rarely like video anything. howto skip skip skip. Used up all my skips on amazon too.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

More than happy to wait

[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Does this apply to Freetube, Invidious and other yt mirrors?

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Haven't experienced that so far (but that's probably because I don't log into my YouTube account anymore and mostly use private browsing), but I imagine that's something that adblockers will eventually be able to block?

[–] F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tee hee. I don't use UserTuber.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Funny, because my ad-blocked vids load just fine in Safari

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