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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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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Funny, because my ad-blocked vids load just fine in Safari

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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?

[–] F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Tee hee. I don't use UserTuber.

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What's that federated video service that carries a bunch of YouTube videos?

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Peertube, but it’s not great yet. I’ve not tried to use it for a few years, so maybe it’s gotten better.

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[–] Guster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

Random article that came up on search

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-changes-3386506/

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