Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
www.windowscentral.com Google is waging war on ad blockers — throttling YouTube to force users back in line
The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.

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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.
42 0 ReplyI switched to Firefox basically as soon as ublock origin didn't work on chrome. It was easier than I thought it would be.
2 0 ReplyI run portable Firefox on my work PC. I refuse to use chrome. some of our apps require Edge, but outside of that, I don't touch chrome.
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