Technology

60371 readers

6215 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

1434

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

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

374 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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."

(page 4) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

i never experienced that delay in the first place...

[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Freetube on PCs, LibreTube on Android. Block that, fuck-o.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Piped or FreeTube on desktop.

LibreTube on mobile. SmartTube on Android TV.

I haven't had to deal with Google's crap in a while. All of these have no ads and have Sponsorblock built-in. I do miss the algorithm's suggestions but I do discover new content creators through Nebula (and FreeTube has decent related video suggestions in my experience).

[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Does this apply to Freetube, Invidious and other yt mirrors?

load more comments