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Fuck YouTube

Are they making it worse than ads make it?

My biggest problem with the ads is that it's louder than the thing I'm watching, oftentimes a lot.

They are sometimes an hour long and I gotta press the skip ad button with my nose cause it'll take me ten minutes or more to clean up.

I have no love for the automatic gadgets where you can speak your commands. They get suggested by my coworkers quite a bit.

They want too much for what is ultimately hours of people playing chess.

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Despite their wasted efforts, it just doesn’t matter. Circumventing all this is still too easy. Only the impatient are doomed.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Google has admitted its efforts to discourage the use of ad blockers now includes delaying the start of videos – a deliberate "suboptimal viewing" experience, as the corporation put it.

Earlier this year, YouTube began interrupting videos for those using advert blockers with a pop-up encouraging them to either disable the offending extension or filter, or pay for YT's ad-free premium tier.

In a statement to The Register, Google admitted it was intentionally making its content less binge-able for users unwilling to turn off offending extensions, though this wasn't linked to any one browser.

To be clear, Google's business model revolves around advertising, and ad blockers are specifically called out as being in violation of its terms of service.

Google told us users who have uninstalled their ad blockers may continue to experience temporary delays loading videos, though the issue should resolve itself after "refreshing their browser."

As we reported earlier this month, the search giant will be pushing ahead with a planned API change in June that will render legacy Chrome extensions – including ad blockers – useless unless they are overhauled.

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It doesn't seem to be working for me. I've never been blocked for using ad blockers. It's still the same speed it's always been. I have all these work arounds just waiting to be used that I haven't even had to actually try.

Are they only doing this shit to like 12 people who write articles about it? Why wouldn't it be globally done all at once for everyone?

Still using Vivaldi with only the built-in ad blocking, still noticing no ads, still noticing zero performance issues.

As a Premium user who still had uBlock installed, I was noticing the other day a loading problem when I had it activated until I deactivated and reloaded. Still, Google is entirely within it's right to target people even according to one of its greatest critics: https://youtu.be/KMLMQRS3Krk?t=175