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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 2 years 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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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Guster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If they haven't already, Google is in the process of disabling ad block extensions on all chrome based browsers. There have been a ton of posts about this on Lemmy.

Random article that came up on search

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-changes-3386506/

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[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And this right here ladies and gentlemen (and other) is why we need to host our own. Hopefully somebody comes up with a peer2peer based youtube competitor.

[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know about peer2peer but decentralized alternative exists. e.g. peertube

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What's that federated video service that carries a bunch of YouTube videos?

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Peertube, but it’s not great yet. I’ve not tried to use it for a few years, so maybe it’s gotten better.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.

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