YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave
YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave
YouTube recently started slowing down its entire site whenever ad blockers are used. A new wave of slowdowns is hitting...
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I don't have an ad blocker, I just have the standard strict tracking protection enabled in Firefox. What's more, I pay for YouTube Premium. But still they add a five-second delay every time I visit a web page. It's infuriating.
Might as well just stop paying for premium then if they're going to ding you anyway.
there is no way the 5 second sleep before loading isnt anti competitive, because last i heard, unless they changed it, it only checks for the firefox user agent.
Actually insane that someone would willingly implement that.
Why pay when you can watch it for free without ads through piped video! Pirate everything, live for free!!
If I were to guess, non-android smart tv. There are very few options if any for these TVs. Since I got my TCL google tv I just put smarttube on it and that was it, no more ads and cast still works. But can't do that with parents' old chromecast or lg TVs
If anyone is curious about the reason, my primary motivation for having Premium is that I don't want my kids to see more ads than necessary, and they're on YouTube on their phones, on the Chromecast (connected to a dumb projector) and on the computer.
The YouTube app has a lot to offer them that they won't get in other apps and I can't realistically force them to use other alternatives everywhere. Especially since I have shared custody and they'll be using YouTube at their mom's place as well.