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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 11 months ago (16 children)

The degree in which corporations engage in psychological warfare against customers is astounding. Not surprising, just outrageous. Don't want notifications on? We're going to ask you to turn on notifications in the the program every single day until you do it. Don't want to watch ads because our infinite greed has destroyed what used to be a good platform with a reasonable number of ads before we bought it? Then we'll make the experience less pleasant until you comply. They already make multiple parts of YouTube disagree with ad blockers on purpose to break the sites features. Not that I use anything other than NewPipe and Piped anymore anyway. I'm just sick of shitty corporations acting like we're children who can be punished.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

We are in a war indeed.

I think it’s a new trend with CEOs and investors. They want infinite growth so the strategy is aquire / create, grow, squeeze, throw away, while creating new products to migrate fed up customers. Rinse and repeat.

Investors goal: maximize ROI this year.

CEO goal: infinite growth and/or increase share price to keep funds flowing.

I believe the current economic behavior isn’t sustainable. Some day things will go south.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually think they are currently all going south. This increase in ads is just one part of the fall I think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Id say the last stage of squeeze might be more accurate.

Because it’s possible to recover now.

Once the majority of big corps reach the no return stage, we’re all screwed.

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