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?
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Funny, because my ad-blocked vids load just fine in Safari
Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can't circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they'd just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
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Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?
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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