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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] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can use Adnauseum, silently/invisibly clicks on every ad as well as hiding them so that the ads get worthless data, your info is drowned out with false stuff (there's a term but I blanked on it), hurts ads

Edit: Will disclose I don't use it as though it's based on uBO it's worse and on the libgen.li book piracy websites uBO lets me actually download a book while Adnauseum doesn't let me