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."
Honestly, staring at a blank page for 30 seconds would be preferable to 30 seconds of ads.
As someone that watches Twitch through MPV, I can confirm watching "Ad Playing" is preferable to actually watching an annoying ad.
I knew I wasn't just imagining things. I like to listen to music on YouTube when driving to work. And sure, the internet reception there is spotty (danke, Merkel), but for a couple weeks now I've consistently had a very long "buffering" period every time the next video/song loaded up.
Well, joke's on them. I found out about NewPipe and its built-in video/audio downloader, because I complained to an acquaintance about it.
I only seem to barely notice the difference... At first i couldnt understand what everyone was talking about...but yeah its a small delay over what it used to be. Also it seems any bookmarked vids will no longer autoplay.... you have to click play... is that a thing anyone else has to do ?
I tried Edge and it seemed only a small bit faster to me, but it did autoplay. Are there any other anomalous strange effects google has done to youtube that i might have missed ?
I never had issues with adds on FF and ublock ... still don't.
Needing to click to play a video is a Firefox feature, and it's been there for ages already. It doesn't allow any audio to play until you interact with the page.
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Honestly, staring at a blank page for 30 seconds would be preferable to 30 seconds of ads.
As someone that watches Twitch through MPV, I can confirm watching "Ad Playing" is preferable to actually watching an annoying ad.
I knew I wasn't just imagining things. I like to listen to music on YouTube when driving to work. And sure, the internet reception there is spotty (danke, Merkel), but for a couple weeks now I've consistently had a very long "buffering" period every time the next video/song loaded up.
Well, joke's on them. I found out about NewPipe and its built-in video/audio downloader, because I complained to an acquaintance about it.
I only seem to barely notice the difference... At first i couldnt understand what everyone was talking about...but yeah its a small delay over what it used to be. Also it seems any bookmarked vids will no longer autoplay.... you have to click play... is that a thing anyone else has to do ?
I tried Edge and it seemed only a small bit faster to me, but it did autoplay. Are there any other anomalous strange effects google has done to youtube that i might have missed ?
I never had issues with adds on FF and ublock ... still don't.
Needing to click to play a video is a Firefox feature, and it's been there for ages already. It doesn't allow any audio to play until you interact with the page.