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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] 162 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I'd still prefer to wait 5 seconds than have to watch a fucking sanitized corporate advertisement trying to sell me bullshit I don't want and won't buy with annoying fucking music, voiceover, and footage of people pretending to be happy.

Fuck off, Google. Good thing this will be easily bypassed anyway.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If it were one ad I might be fine with it, but it's usually 2-3 ads every 5-10 minutes, at a volume twice as loud as the video, and each up to 2 minutes long.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

A made the mistake of watching YouTube on my TV a few weeks back, without an ad blocker. I was getting 1-3 15 second ads every 2-3 minutes!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

And inserted randomly within the content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

footage of people pretending to be happy.

Oof, get'em.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I hate ads too. Would you consider paying for a service so it's user supported instead of ad supported? I do, pay for YouTube, Spotify, Hulu no ad tier. It gets old because it starts adding up. I'd rather pay for a user owned platform like a coop of some kind, but still, these things do cost money to run.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I won't pay for Youtube because they keep making their product worse and treating creators horribly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I won't pay for YouTube because the executives are literally thousands of times wealthier than I am.

Why the fuck would I give money to people who are already obscenely rich?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

People don't have issues paying. As you said, if it was a user-run co-op, people would be fine with it. But as it stands right now the services keep raising their prices just because they can while all the money goes to the bosses and shareholders while the actual people who do most of the work get whatever is left over

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I do pay for some services, where there is reasonable value.

However I rarely use YouTube so was fine with dealing with the devil of ads. Was. The inexorable march of enshittification will likely make me either never use that service or try technical workarounds for some of the enshittification (excessive ads)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hulu no ad tier.

I won't be shocked when they eventually get rid of this altogether. They shouldn't be shocked when I switch to 100% piracy when they do.

Fuck ads.