After yet another crackdown on ad-blockers, YouTube users are noticing videos that load slowly and direct them to a support page about turning off ad-blocking extensions.
  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Oh no! You are going to make your platform work like ass? And you expect us to do mental gymnastics in such a way that instead of blaming you (you know the one that has control over the platform) we blame uBlock? The same uBlock that has made using your platform bearable for many years, to the point that I will sit in silence with the screen off instead of watch with ads?

    I think even if you make us wait a min before playing the video most would take that over an ad.

  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    Stop feeding me dog shit AI videos about a condom delivery boy who has to deliver some to a hotel only to find his girlfriend cheating on him and maybe I’ll stop blocking ads you fuck sticks

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    YouTube was lagging to play vids the other day now i wonder if it was A B testing. screw off YouTube. 10 ads for a 20 minute video isn’t normal and never will be. also the ads pause if you aren’t watching them. wtf? as always I expect uBlock Origin to get around this

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I use an old outdated version of FF because the new v3 google bullshit isn’t supported for my os version.

        it was working fine one day and then a week after the official “cut off” it just slowed down and dropped quality.

        it’s ok though. I don’t mind switching the quality and waiting for videos to buffer.

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    8 hours ago

    If it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download the video or whole playlist and watch it later. Do I care that it’s putting additional strain on YouTube’s servers? Indeed, I’m devastated and overtaken with guilt 😂 These are tears of regret, I swear 😂

  • bfg9k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 hours ago

    They’ve already tried this.

    We’ve already sidestepped it.

    It’s just going to keep on going like this till a viable alternative shows up.

  • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
    211·
    9 hours ago

    “Might”? They’re already doing it.

    YouTube in Firefox with Ublock Origin is getting throttled down to 1500kbps. I can’t watch anything above 720p on my desktop anymore (with gigabit internet).

    YouTube ReVanced on mobile and SmartTube Next on the TV still thankfully work without issues.

      • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        3 hours ago

        They do it to groups of people at a time to prevent mass anger and hysteria. Don’t worry you’ll eventually get throttled too.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 hours ago

    We need to find ways to pressurize the content creators to upload to alternative platforms like Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube, Misskey etc…