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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They honestly never bothered me too much but I have to say if they ever succeed in defeating the ad blockers it will be hard to go back now that I've seen this side.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

People have been conditioned into viewing ads as a normal every day part of life. It's actually kind of scary, since it's basically mind games to convince people to hand their money over.