Thanks uBO team I don't even know yt is trying anything

Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.

If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.

They've been doing this for close to 20 years. Ever since shortly after google bought them.

If you are a content creator please consider upload your content on other video platforms too.

If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.

If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?

Oh no! You are going to make your platform work like ass? And you expect us to do mental gymnastics in such a way that instead of blaming you (you know the one that has control over the platform) we blame uBlock? The same uBlock that has made using your platform bearable for many years, to the point that I will sit in silence with the screen off instead of watch with ads?

I think even if you make us wait a min before playing the video most would take that over an ad.

Don't care, still better than the ads.

I'll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it'll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.

And i stop using youtube when my adblock doesnt work. fuck em

YouTube might just go fuck itself!

If it takes too long to load I just use yt-dlp to download the video or whole playlist and watch it later. Do I care that it's putting additional strain on YouTube's servers? Indeed, I'm devastated and overtaken with guilt 😂 These are tears of regret, I swear 😂

For about the last 3 years I've been hearing about YouTube cracking down on ad blockers. Not once has it affected my. Ublock still stops ads on the browser. Revanced stops em on the phone.

Stop feeding me dog shit AI videos about a condom delivery boy who has to deliver some to a hotel only to find his girlfriend cheating on him and maybe I’ll stop blocking ads you fuck sticks

Please support peertube sites - here's a list of instances to find something matching your interests: https://joinpeertube.org/instances

"Might"? They're already doing it.

YouTube in Firefox with Ublock Origin is getting throttled down to 1500kbps. I can't watch anything above 720p on my desktop anymore (with gigabit internet).

YouTube ReVanced on mobile and SmartTube Next on the TV still thankfully work without issues.

Not only that but the bit-rate as of late seems horrendous, 1080 looks more like 720 or lower with artifacts all over the place.

Jokes on them, I already watch videos at 0.5x

they also slow down videos if I use Firefox.

YouTube can eat my ass.

YouTube can die in a fire and take its fucking premium with it.

That's a lot of effort for a website that mostly offers background noise.

Can't slow down videos I've downloaded to my Plex server. 👍🏽

"Might"... it's introducing an artificial delay when loading videos.

That explains the "are you experiencing interruptions" message I keep getting these days, though I kinda expected this.

They will never be happy with how much money they squeeze out of it. When people are watching videos that are 99% ads and the content is limited to two alternating pixels they will still find a way to further optimize their profit-taking. Nothing is ever good enough for the hyper-capitalist; product managers are a disease.

We need to find ways to pressurize the content creators to upload to alternative platforms like Odysee, Rumble, Nebula, Peertube, Misskey etc...

meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.

Nebula's getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

And this is different from the usual YouTube jank how, exactly? I can't block ads on the YouTube TV app and it's a buggy mess and I have no idea why one of the major tech companies in the world allowed that to happen.

YouTube was lagging to play vids the other day now i wonder if it was A B testing. screw off YouTube. 10 ads for a 20 minute video isn't normal and never will be. also the ads pause if you aren't watching them. wtf? as always I expect uBlock Origin to get around this

How desperate can you be to put yourself out of business?

Having to wait with a black screen before the video starts is completely acceptable to me.
Having to watch Ads is not.

That’s great! I spend too much time on yt, it’ll break me of my addiction and I’ll do something else besides passive consumption.