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YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled (old.reddit.com)

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

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[+] LemmyIsFantastic -36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not. They are not logged in or some shit.

YT premium works great.

[–] grayman 2 points 9 months ago

I have premium and am logged in. I get the stalls. It's also a new experience. I also have to manually adjust quality to get better than squareville.

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

I don't believe this for a minute. Why would anyone trust this?

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

🤷‍♂️

It's not.

You think you'd be on here and not see 40 posts of people screeching that YT is serving ads to premium users?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know a single person who has ever paid for YouTube premium, and would consider anyone who does to be a mark. And I'm certain that, for a variety of reasons, the userbase of this place are very unlikely to use premium.

So no, I don't think I would have heard about that

[–] grayman 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Premium user here. Sorry I'm outside of your bubble. Unfortunately, there still is good reason to have it right now. At least for those in my circle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Paying for something that adblockers and workarounds give you for free makes you a mark.

Google isn't my friend and they don't deserve my money. I'm sure "your circle" is very prestigious and hard to deceive though