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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 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ads can be 15 minutes. Like they're adding goddamn infomercials now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

At least 2-3 times I would get an entire K-pop music video as an ad.

Sure I can be skipped, but it will play when I’m in the shower listening to a podcast.

I don’t speak Korean or listen to kpop, so it’s weird it’s being advertised to me as I’m not the target audience.

[–] ElectroNeutrino 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've seen more than one hour long ad. It let you skip after 5 seconds, but imagine if someone were leaving it on as background.

[–] Evilcoleslaw 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When they first launched YouTube Red I remember they were throwing whole episodes of their shows up as pre-roll ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

sacre bleuuu