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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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[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one reason I’m excited for AV1. Being able to store high quality video in a fraction of the disk space is something that will bring being a competitor to YouTube much more viable.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to play around with it, but it wasn’t part of the standard ffmpeg and I would need special build flags to use it.

That’s above my understanding, so I didn’t move forward.

I’ll have to check to see if it can be done at this time.