Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

simonced@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Fluid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Frog, meet boiling water. This is standard play, like adding ads in the first place. First it’s one short, then slightly longer, then two in a row, then interspersed… eventually it’s commercial TV, just one big ad. Give em inch, they take a mile. Advertising shits in your head, don’t let it.

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• sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ads can be 30 seconds

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  • GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      sacre bleuuu

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• RandomStickman@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait 5 seconds and it plays or bombarded with ads that, at best, takes 5 second and an manual action before watching a video?

  Yeah, if I wasn't using Freetube on desktop I'm still not watching ads.

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