It's punishing me and I'm using their app. Their video loading has been spotty as shit lately. And I know it's not my bandwidth, I've got 5Gbps available and 12ms latency to YouTube's closest data center.
I'm not even blocking the ads when I use it.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Strange then how my Vivaldi browser doesn't have the load time, then. Almost like it's a punishment for non-chromium users.
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This delay has happened on Brave browser too, it's not FF specific. But it's pathetic either way.
I mean, if they really wanted to show you ads, they could just switch the returned stream when the video player calls for certain chunk, then when that ad is done playing, switch back to the original stream. The user experience would be basically like watching TV.
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I'll just blame it on my ISP being shit
Oh wow, I just opened lemmy because a YouTube video was taking extra time to open in Firefox lol.
I've never seen this fake load thing and I always use Firefox
I haven't noticed this in the browser, but I've definitely noticed it using the YouTube app on Roku. No Firefox or ad blocker there.
Youtube be like: "Theyre the same people"
I'm not experiencing that issue on Grayjay 👍