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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 199 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Blocking adblockers apparently doesn't work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

I thought I was going insane with the wrong video thing. I have premium but also an ad blocker because the entire internet is a cancerous cesspit without one, so I wonder if I get hit with anti ad blocking measures or I was just tripping?