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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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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Cruelty, is Thy name.

[–] CannedCairn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, I just opened lemmy because a YouTube video was taking extra time to open in Firefox lol.

[–] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

i never experienced that delay in the first place...

[–] Destraight@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I'll just blame it on my ISP being shit

[–] wshhh@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I haven't noticed this in the browser, but I've definitely noticed it using the YouTube app on Roku. No Firefox or ad blocker there.

[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm in Canada and I've noticed none of this. No video load delays, no anti ad-blocker pop ups, none of it. I'm not going to stop using Firefox or Ublock Origin though.

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[–] amotio@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This delay has happened on Brave browser too, it's not FF specific. But it's pathetic either way.

I mean, if they really wanted to show you ads, they could just switch the returned stream when the video player calls for certain chunk, then when that ad is done playing, switch back to the original stream. The user experience would be basically like watching TV.

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[–] superpants@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've never seen this fake load thing and I always use Firefox

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I will never again use Chrome again (well maybe except YouTube if stops working in non-chromium-based browsers), we need to get Web back into our hands! It is sad that it took me too many years to realize that, I hope others will follow.

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[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's punishing me and I'm using their app. Their video loading has been spotty as shit lately. And I know it's not my bandwidth, I've got 5Gbps available and 12ms latency to YouTube's closest data center.

I'm not even blocking the ads when I use it.

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[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange then how my Vivaldi browser doesn't have the load time, then. Almost like it's a punishment for non-chromium users.

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