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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)
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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."

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube can go screw themselves, use Invidious or Piped to access YouTube. You can also combine this with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped. There are amazing mobile clients like LibreTube or NewPipe for Android and Yattee with this guide for iOS. All of these don't have ads or trackers.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can vouch for Yattee on iOS, but every once in awhile I’ve had to grab new invidious instances as things happen

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

AFAIK if you use https://r.yattee.stream/manifest-invidious-piped.json, it automatically fetches the list of instances. Can't try it out right now since I switched away from iOS. On GrapheneOS I don't have any of these issues, I can simply sideload any app I want meaning I can actually use a proper YouTube client like LibreTube.