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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

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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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[–] IDew@lemm.ee 158 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Even though it doesn't apply for me (praise Freetube and Grayjay!) I'd rather waste 5 second looking at black than any ad ever

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's funny they think 5 seconds of no content is worst of 10~30 seconds of ads.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Most of the time, the commercial's volume is much louder than whatever content you are watching. So ya, I'd rather have nothing...

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