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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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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 31 points 1 year ago

Okay. Yeah. Sure.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like the explanation follows a thread of believability, but even then, this feature was terribly coded if it was circumvented via User Agent string manipulation.

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[–] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

lol, I take back the snark I gave in another thread the other day about Google doing this to fuck with people now. Egg on my face for giving them the benefit of the doubt.

They can't honestly think this will have the desired effect. I also bet the poor sod that had to implement it "strongly advised not to do it". But was over ruled by some know it all shit head MBA.

[–] vasametropolis@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Can you say "anti-trust"

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is hillarious! I didn't even notice that. YT always delayed video loading a little. Is this really a change?

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] mmagod@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they're so shockingly inept, i can't believe it anymore

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh, I just thought youtube was running slow. Still better than ads.

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[–] Buttons@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

The sad thing is, I consider this an upgrade. I'll take a moment to breathe and maybe break out of the negative spiral that is modern internet use.

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Five seconds of loading is an upgrade over five consecutive ads

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[–] spacehedgehog@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't understand why companies still place ads on youtube. I've never ever bought a product or visited a company's website which was advertised on youtube.

Are there really people who listen to youtube ads?

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I've participated in several campaigns that resulted in ~20% increases in sales for targeted ads. It makes a difference.

Sadly.

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Active enshitification.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like when a teacher can't target the bad kid so they punish the whole class instead.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Ads are sub suboptimal viewing.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GrayJay is still working pretty good. I cannot use the YouTube app, or mobile browsers because most of the content I'm interested in isn't highly visual so I like to turn my screen off and listen. I am ok with a reasonable amount of ads but the anti-feature of background play disabled without premium is just stupid.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You need YouTube ReVanced.

[–] BlackPit@feddit.ch 19 points 1 year ago

Google's modus operandi - business as usual. Deploying their dirty tricks on their mass of servers to edge out and destroy competition. When caught out they apologize all surprised Pikachu style, then do it again differently. This is likely in response to news about Firefox mobile finally allowing extensions to work. People are probably trying it out, but their Youtube experience will be crap, so they'll go back to chrome.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatever you say Google. Hey EU, Google wants to chat with you.

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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like all the people running Firefox (most of my friends/family and many colleagues) are just going to say “damn, YouTube sucks. I should look elsewhere” and not “oh, it must be slow because I’m not on chrome.” Heck my parents don’t even know what chrome is.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Still illegal

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