Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
Oh wow, I just opened lemmy because a YouTube video was taking extra time to open in Firefox lol.
I’ll just blame it on my ISP being shit
I’ve never seen this fake load for and I always use Firefox
They don’t roll it out to all users at once. Similar to the video blocking
Strange then how my Vivaldi browser doesn’t have the load time, then. Almost like it’s a punishment for non-chromium users.
It totally is. Accidents, Beta features, etc. all used as cover to be a cunt.
Freetube on PCs, LibreTube on Android. Block that, fuck-o.
Piped.video
Youtube be like: “Theyre the same people”
I’m not experiencing that issue on Grayjay 👍
How did we function before youtube. besides music videos I rarely like video anything. howto skip skip skip. Used up all my skips on amazon too.
There used to be a whole tv channel for music videos
Piped or FreeTube on desktop.
LibreTube on mobile. SmartTube on Android TV.
I haven’t had to deal with Google’s crap in a while. All of these have no ads and have Sponsorblock built-in. I do miss the algorithm’s suggestions but I do discover new content creators through Nebula (and FreeTube has decent related video suggestions in my experience).
Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can’t circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they’d just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
Doubtful. I’d rather see a black, silent screen for 30 seconds then an ad for some clone of a game.
They can’t. If they make the wait period too long, people will just think YT is down. And having constant downtime as a content delivery platform is really bad PR.
How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?
I do, on desktop anyway
I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.
More than happy to wait
Everyone here is bitching and whining about how much YouTube sucks, and yet we all know that no one will stop using the service.
So why do you they’re able to get away with this type of shit time and time again?
Youtube is great not because of itself, but because of the content, none of which the’re the creator of.
I say this a lot but I’d happily pay for YouTube if the company didn’t run it so arbitrarily
There isn’t any alternative for either content creators or consumers so of course people can’t just stop using it. But that doesn’t mean everyone should just accept anything from them. These kinds of things definitely hurt both the YouTube and Google brands and there definitely are Google products that you can stop using and avoiding to give money to YouTube.
Well, then you can count on them continuing to fuck over everyone that uses their service.
Does this apply to Freetube, Invidious and other yt mirrors?
Funny, because my ad-blocked vids load just fine in Safari
Haven’t experienced that so far (but that’s probably because I don’t log into my YouTube account anymore and mostly use private browsing), but I imagine that’s something that adblockers will eventually be able to block?
Tee hee. I don’t use UserTuber.
And this right here ladies and gentlemen (and other) is why we need to host our own. Hopefully somebody comes up with a peer2peer based youtube competitor.
I don’t know about peer2peer but federation version exists. e.g. peertube
IPFS?
Everything fine with private DNS and brave 👍👍
“Everything is working fine on my chromium-based browser”
No shit, Sherlock.
When the point it’s seeing a webpage I don’t give a flying fuck if it’s chromium or Firefox both are open source, I mean while I’m not using chrome what have the propietary shit I’m fine. ✌️👍.
Maybe changing your user agent just let’s you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
So what? I have to wait about 5 seconds anyway because I have a slow internet connection. No big deal. 5 seconds of not watching a youtube video is probably good for you.
I’m using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?
If they haven’t already, Google is in the process of disabling ad block extensions on all chrome based browsers. There have been a ton of posts about this on Lemmy.
It won’t be possible in the future. It should be happening soonish if I’m remembering correctly. There’s a change to how add-ons will be allowed to work in chrome.
Not when they roll out manifest v3
Little do these companies know that poor people know how to be patient and older people remember the days of free ad supported internet dialup via cds, so this is not new and people will continue where business models fail.
It was happening for several days with me but it seems to be fixed now
Nope, still too easy to get around.
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