I remember waiting 30 minutes for 75% of a badly compressed 1 minute pornvideo to load, I can outlast whatever they throw at us.
Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
Thteven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hahahahaha, do they know that using it without the ad blocker is worse than whatever else they’re going to do? I’d rather stare at 30 seconds of black screen than a 5 second ad, lmao.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 7 months ago
Zerfallen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Good thing you only needed 75% of that 1 minute porn video, or you’d have had to wait even longer.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s the expectation and imagination in the meantime that does it.
Zerfallen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At some point just seeing the progress bar Increase a notch might be enough.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 7 months ago
Please, I’m not a marathon runner.
I only needed 30 seconds.
decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Well actually they can do much more, like for example decreasing quality to lets say 144p
I’m not saying that adblockers will not be able to bypass it, maybe there will be a solution as well, but wanted to say that the blank screen waiting is not their only weapon
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
*a 5 second ad every 5 minutes
Thteven@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If it was really that little I wouldn’t be so up in arms about it. I put a video on yesterday and had 30 seconds of ads before it started and then another 30 seconds of ads after a minute and a half. Fuck that nonsense.
JustZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Usually the only thing I find YouTube uses for is those short 30 seconds of a video I have searched for. Like how to DIY something or quick, visualdemonstrations of concepts.
As bad as YouTube has gotten, it’s already super common for me to skip over the first of you search results, which are usually YouTube links, and just go to like the 4th or 5th one down, and fine. It’s just as useful. If I was blind or couldn’t read, that would suck, but I can live without YouTube like, I mostly already do, and used to, too.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Having a blank screen will make me less angry than seeing a long advertisement. Not to mention, I come from the days of dial up. I can wait a bit until I view the video.