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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 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Nebula. It's a subscription-based alternative with no advertising, but I get it for free because I'm subscribed to Curiosity Stream (which is basically Netflix, but for documentaries).

The only downside to Nebula is that there aren't a lot of content creators on it, so you don't have the variety of videos that YouTube offers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The captions suck too. I subscribed to the same deal as you. I did it mostly to support the creators. But I basically never use it. The creator whose affiliate link I used to sign up? Their own captions are amazing on YouTube (human written with colour and positioning) and auto generated garbage on Nebula.