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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 9 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/tech@kbin.social

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In a statement, Google did not provide specifics but also did not deny implementing an artificial wait time. “To support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube, we’ve launched an effort to urge viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience, the spokesperson said. “Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I want to sympathize with the idea of "we need to get paid for the service" because the reality is that video hosting isn't cheap.

But they somehow manage to be a way worse ad experience than the other platforms while also giving fuckall to the creators. So fuck 'em.

[–] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I got YouTube premium, honestly i use YT quite a bit so a hundred bucks for a year isn't that big a deal for me to get rid of annoying ads.

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Watching 4 ads in a video under 6 minutes is bad design.

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Also, over saturating the web with ads, effectively devaluing web ad space might also be the dumbest move we ever made regarding monetising the web... say, who did that again?