▲ 659 ▼ YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads (www.pcworld.com) submitted 1 year ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world 222 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 236 points 1 year ago (5 children) Thanks uBO team I don't even know yt is trying anything permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Schal330@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (1 child) Using uBO, but have noticed a slightly longer delay of a few seconds between hitting play and the video starting, but I can deal with that over being forced to watch 30s of ads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 year ago Honestly it just felt like youtube's servers were shittimg themselves again, so I baely even register it as a real interruption. permalink fedilink source parent [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 20 points 1 year ago (1 child) There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I'd like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that's happening, thanks. Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 points 1 year ago This happens to me too, especially when it’s a computer that I haven’t used in a while, which makes me think that yeah it’s the arms race. It stops once my browser is open long enough for uBO to update permalink fedilink source parent [–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 1 year ago It’s the people that make blocking lists that we should thank. I don’t think uBO makes anything themselves permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (1 child) Using uBO, but have noticed a slightly longer delay of a few seconds between hitting play and the video starting, but I can deal with that over being forced to watch 30s of ads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 year ago Honestly it just felt like youtube's servers were shittimg themselves again, so I baely even register it as a real interruption. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 year ago Honestly it just felt like youtube's servers were shittimg themselves again, so I baely even register it as a real interruption. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 20 points 1 year ago (1 child) There have been periods where one of my accounts was getting an ad-length black screen with buffering throbber (I hate that name) and, the most recent time, it was accompanied by a pop-up asking me if I'd like to find out why that was happening. Yeah. I know why that's happening, thanks. Then that stopped happening again. Either they gave up or UBo have worked around it somehow. Never ending arms race. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 points 1 year ago This happens to me too, especially when it’s a computer that I haven’t used in a while, which makes me think that yeah it’s the arms race. It stops once my browser is open long enough for uBO to update permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 points 1 year ago This happens to me too, especially when it’s a computer that I haven’t used in a while, which makes me think that yeah it’s the arms race. It stops once my browser is open long enough for uBO to update permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 points 1 year ago It’s the people that make blocking lists that we should thank. I don’t think uBO makes anything themselves permalink fedilink source parent