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

Tee hee. I don't use UserTuber.

[–] 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?

[–] Guster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can't circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they'd just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.

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[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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