Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It's an awful experience. But they'll leave my browser before my adblocker does.
I've started bulk downloading videos with yt-dlp and watching them locally. No ads or throttling to deal with.
I'd sooner spend five minutes waiting for the video to buffer than five seconds watching an ad
Make me wait 5 mins on a black screen and I'll do that before watching an ad.
A wild YouTube appeared!
Go, uBlock Origin!
Wild YouTube used Throttle!
It's not very effective...
uBlock Origin used Evolve!
It's super effective!
YouTube fainted!
I watched videos on Newgrounds using dial-up
They are going to have to slow ad blockers by a lot for me to consider it slow
I've been seeing this for a couple weeks now along with a popup telling me "ad blockers aren't allowed" at work where I'm forced to use Chrome. I have UBlock Lite installed. Typically a refresh takes care of the popup and a 10 second delay later, the video loads.
So it's wait a few seconds and watch a black screen or watch a minute of ads? What a choice...
We can live without YouTube, they can’t live without us.
Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent
Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant's comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn't really provide details LOL
“Do evil.” Google’s official new slogan.
God damn American companies love fucking up everything for money!
I'll wait.
I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.
Yo I pay for premium and it’s been fucking slow. Cancel my subscription? Guess I might need to.
Oh no, where will I get my AI slop?
Why do i feel like this happened a while ago? Like, isn't this old news? Or "olds" as it were?
I'm finding I'm using youtube less and less that I can't actually remember the last time I used it for anything. Youtube has so much crap now.
Because of their monetisation scheme for content creators, it was profitable for creators to drag 15 mins of information out to one hour, and then to include shock faces as thumbs to get more clicks, and then to get more viewers just to watch a bit of the video as viewership dwindles into just mindlessly watching suggestions.
I feel sorry for those creators who have gone balls deep with youtube content and who have no "plan b".
"Is your video not loading ? Check out why, you fucking ad dodging commie" is the feeling i got from youtube's newest message while my video was unexpectedly taking 10s to load
Good, kill your product
Remember when videos would buffer all the time on non-chrome browsers lol
Aha I'm not crazy! There was about a week where YouTube videos were so slow and we mainly use SmartTube on the shield TV, the fucked up part is I pay for YouTube premium, I just like the UI and options available on SmartTube better then the default app.
It did seem to get better, so maybe they realized I fucking pay for this service.
Been using revanced for months and haven't noticed a difference other than no ads or sponsors on bigger channels.
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