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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

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[–] maruudn@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My biggest issue is circumventing ads on smart TV apps, 99% of my YT viewing is on a TV.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cheap android tv box (onn) install smart tube.

[–] maruudn@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't live in the US so I don't have as easy access to random Android boxes like the ones on Amazon, but yeah I'll probably get one eventually. I have a Chromecast 4K, but I haven't really explored all the available apps yet. I'd love to be able to sideload apps, if I could get Grayjay on there that'd be awesome.

[–] beefontoast@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

If you get a fire stick from Amazon and load smarttube app (side loading) you can use that and all the adverts and sponsor sections will be blocked out of your YouTube viewing. You can login to your YouTube account also with the app.

[+] Evotech@lemmy.world -17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's pretty easy

Just get YouTube premium

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

LOL

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Then you are part of the problem.

If no one bought that crap there wouldn’t be an insensitive for this psychological warfare.

[+] Evotech@lemmy.world -11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Imagine paying for content. What's the saying? If it's free you are the product?

Anyway, I paid long before the AdBlock crackdown.

[–] maruudn@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Idk man, paying for YT premium feels like paying for an ad-free experience, not content. Like my subscription would be going to YT, not the creators who made the content.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You forget that YouTube was always free in the before times of long long ago. Content was free and delivered flawlessly. Minimal ads. Maybe banner ads or something. Now it's ads every few minutes.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's obviously not sustainable. At some point they need to recover expenses on all their infrastructure and development. It can either be through ads or a subscription model. Alternatively they shut down permanently. Which do you want?

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At this point, I'm fine with it shutting down. If it shut down, creators would go somewhere else, we could end up with something much better. i won't watch youtube if I have to watch minutes of ads before the video, and more throughout the video. Hard fucking pass.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago

Ok. Then stop watching instead of complaining. I don't watch ads either.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They had paid for it for years. The sustainability relied on the range of services vs the service itself. For example, Walmart doesn't really profit on big tvs. Typically the markup is negative. They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc. It's not a this or that for me. It's the choice of the company to change it up to be more profitable.

Let's be real, the point of a business is to make money. More money = more success, right? But what happens when you reach one billion dollars? Is one more billion more successful?

This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you've won. Stop being a greedy dick.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They had paid for it for years.

Yes. With the intent of making a profit eventually. Or they wouldn't have.

They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc.

What is YouTube going to "combat" with if not advertising or subscriptions...?

This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.

One billion means nothing if you're spending tens of billions per year to continue operating. I'm not suggesting the CEO of YouTube deserves to get richer. I'm saying the company has operational expenses and investments that require some level of profitability, and "free for everyone forever" is literally just not a viable option.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alphabet spent $70 billion on stock repurchases last year. Their server costs aren't a problem.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

It's not that they couldn't burn billions of dollars for the betterment of society. It's that obviously they won't. If YouTube weren't supposed to be profitable it wouldn't exist.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YouTube is only one section of an entire corporation. Compare Walmart's entertainment department to the rest of the store. The company does profit.

Free forever was the whole premise of YouTube. That's why it was named You Tube. Users create content and host it. Ads were fine, the ads now are not fine.

The operational expenses were always covered by ads. Ads is Googles whole business model. They were successful when they were less intrusive, why do they need to do things this way and break up the videos when they have grown an empire on what was previously done?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YouTube is only one section of an entire corporation.

It's a corporation, not a charity. They don't spend tens of billions per year out of good will.

Ads were fine, the ads now are not fine.

Ads were not making enough money to justify continued operation.

They were successful when they were less intrusive, why do they need to do things this way and break up the videos when they have grown an empire on what was previously done?

Because "what was previously done" is not sustainable.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I simply disagree. Stats if YouTube show not just a small sustainable gain, but we are taking 4-5x their income from 10 years ago. https://mobilemarketingreads.com/youtube-revenue-and-usage-statistics-2020/

What they're doing with ads is annoying as shit and their right to do as it's their business to run. It's my right to run my browsers how I want. Also my right to filter traffic in and out of my network.

Sorry man but YouTube ads can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I simply disagree.

I don't care

Stats if YouTube show not just a small sustainable gain, but we are taking 4-5x their income from 10 years ago. https://mobilemarketingreads.com/youtube-revenue-and-usage-statistics-2020/

It doesn't matter

What they’re doing with ads is annoying as shit and their right to do as it’s their business to run. It’s my right to run my browsers how I want. Also my right to filter traffic in and out of my network.

I don't care

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Now we're seeing eye to eye.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

I just bypass google entirely by hosting my own modified invidious instance and nuked my account.

Free, no clutter, blazing fast. Took maybe 20 minutes to setup.

[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox + uBlock Origin + User Agent Switcher (set to Chrome). I did get the pop-up once saying they would cut me off. I cleared cache and browsing data and haven't seen the warning since. 🤞

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only issue I have with YouTube is that while using an Ad blocker it doesn't track videos I have already seen in my subscriptions.

So it will tell me that I didn't watch a video I just watched.

A small price to pay for an ad free experience but a bit annoying still.

[–] Rayquaza01@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

If your history isn't working, it's probably because you're blocking s.youtube.com. If you whitelist that, history should work again.

[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 10 months ago

Still works fine with uBlock origin.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I disabled all my adblockers except for adnauseam with strict blocking and now youtube is running really fast.

Adnauseam is the best because it clicks all the ads it blocks, making the anti-adblock bullshit think you're clicking on ads.

Getting it on a chromium based browser is a little bit of a chore, but it's well worth it, because no other adblocker works consistently

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s baffling to me, how many people complain about YouTube- and continue to use YouTube. At this rate, they could murder your families and you’d still give them business.

JUST STOP USING YOUTUBE.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Just stop buying food from the only place that sells food you like."

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

YouTube isn’t life sustaining. Maybe start with getting that understood.