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

nfsu2@feddit.cl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do No Evil

  Be A Lil Bitch

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• kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one’s going to unless someone recreates YouTube, which isn’t happening anytime soon.

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  • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s already been recreated (vevo, peertube, etc.) it’s just that those services don’t have anywhere near the content Youtube has.

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    • nfsu2@feddit.cl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks fot saving my time answering for all of us

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    • Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sadly, the problem is that the small platforms tend to attract all the scum that was blocked on YT. You know… all the racist anitisemitic nazi conspiracy theory ridden brains.

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    • greenmarty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      • they don’t have Alphabet’s backing

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  • Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ad funded model is dying AKA endless free money is dying, it doesn’t work because there’s no real business there it works based on the empty promise of making money elsewhere on the products they are selling without any guarantee that the advertisement is what’s making them the money. The analytics are starting to tell them that it’s not as good of an investment as they once thought. Advertisement has become overvalued, that’s why people are saying that there is a bubble and that it’s going to burst, just like it happened before with the dotcom crash.

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• Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk, this one is pretty easily explained by Hanlon’s razor. I’m sure others will disagree, which is fine, but it seems not only plausible, but likely that they intended for this to target all ad block users and not just FireFox. Google has waged a war with adblockers, and they are making quick retaliatory changes as the adblockers block the adblocker blockers. It’s literally Google making changes and people changing the adblockers back. It genuinely seems more realistic for them to have tried to target all adblockers than just FireFox…

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah except changing your user agent to chrome bypasses the load slowdown lol

    Thanks to HTTP being a complete mish mash and meme of protocols and standards, there’s no way for google to easily target ad blockers without either significantly changing the entire youtube API, or trying to enforce stupid DRM bullcrappary by updating or pushing for a new web standard.

    Even crunchyroll doesn’t crackdown on ad block even with DRM playback enabled.

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    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah except changing your user agent to chrome bypasses the load slowdown lol

      Did you test this yourself? Rather than just ask your source, I was going to test it myself. However, I cannot get a slow down at all. Everything is loading instantly and ad-free. Perhaps the servers providing my instance of YouTube don’t have the change, I’m not sure, but I have not been able to personally create this. So without a reliable source or evidence, I cannot just take your word for it that changing the user-agent alone fixed the issue.

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      • greenmarty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Rossmann tested it in latest video. No difference between browsers. And that dude is strong ad block and none Google browser supporter.

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  • Dewded@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty much. Doesn’t help that Firefox is the best browser for customizing your browsing experience. So all adblockers are very good on it.

    Probably some summer trainee tasked with solving the Firefox + ublock Origin combo made an oopsie.

    With all that said: fuck Google for even beginning their crusade against adblockers.

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