Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave
Hawke@lemmy.world 5 months agoI have YouTube premium
Wow, so you pay them and they still screw you? Glad that’s a product I’ll never buy then!
I know, right? But I suppose their reasoning is that my ads are also blocked across the rest of their ecosystem, my subscription isn’t covering those losses.
Still though, a model that requires that customers look at something they don’t want to nor will engage with smells like failure.
I’m generally okay with the idea of “you can get it for free and we’ll include ads to pay for it, or you can pay instead”.
Where I’m definitely not okay is “you can pay, and we’ll include ads anyway.”
The sick twist is that I use Ublock Origin and won’t ever pay for YouTube premium and I haven’t experienced even the slightest issue streaming videos on YouTube. 😂
Anecdotally at best. I know it’s not what you want to hear, but you’re making a conclusion based on something one person said.
CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have YouTube premium and an adblocker and I don’t have this problem. I’m skeptical that it’s related.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I too am a YouTube premium customer, and my video performance is horrible lately.
Funny enough, on my living room smart TV YouTube app my performance has been bad as well, even though I am logged in to my premium YouTube account.
Something is going on, and it does effect some (at least) premium customers.
PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
Wasn’t that exactly how the adblock blocks went out in the first place? Only a few areas at a time were affected.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same, YT Premium, Firefox, ad blocker, no issues with streaming.