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YouTube is blaming that Firefox delay people been talking about on adblockers. (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This delay isn't exclusive to Firefox, it's in any browser where a user has enabled adblockers including in Chrome. Disable the adblocker and this delay magically go away. This was done on purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (9 children)

To say the quiet part out loud: Bullshit

Google may find that their only option is to paywall YouTube. Too many of us will prefer to pay creators directly rather than letting Google take a cut. And YouTube is not the only game in town.

I admit that I’m pretty much done with YouTube anyway. Their unskippable mid roll ads that interrupt videos mid-word have become obnoxious enough that many creators I follow are jumping ship and advising their viewers where to find them.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Google may find that their only option is to paywall YouTube.

They already have Youtube premium. But $14/month is an insane price. I refuse to believe that is anywhere near the typical ad revenue they get from people. That is more than many streaming services.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a plan where you just pay to rid of the ads, but YouTube is past YouTube, they would rather everyone pay YouTube premium as is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They had that plan over here. But they killed it just before the war against ad block started (it was around half of the price of premium)

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