Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

The world’s biggest video platform is sabotaging your stream — unless you play by their ad-fueled rules.

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It's not a problem if you have a modicum of patience (the video takes like 10 seconds longer to load and that's all I'm seeing different), but I do love the passive-aggressive little "Experiencing interruptions? Find Out Why" popup they've implemented to show up in the bottom corner. So, so petty. Whatever executive came up with that idea is an absolute tool lol
- You can block that pop up with ublocks picker tool
  
  I quite like it, makes me feel powerful when I scoff at it because I'm also a petty bitch 😂 thank you for the advice though, I appreciate it!
- “Experiencing interruptions? Find Out Why”
  
  I just assume they are skimping on support, like all those 'higher than normal call volume' bullshit.
  
  Oh no, the link explicitly blames browser extensions like ad blockers -- they're fully intentionally trying to trick people into disabling and blaming their ad blockers
youtube is unwatchable without ad blockers.
Revanced seems to work just fine, for the record
It's been going on a while now. I think the best end result is any unofficial client should look so similar to TV set top boxes or other alternative clients that it degrades the service for the average user if Google tries segregating the clients.
I wonder if thats why ytdl been slow recently? either way it doesn't bother me really, if its a video i plan watching il just predl it on tp my media server and skip all ads/tracking
Grayjay works fine on desktop.

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