Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users?

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.org – 30 points –
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I'm using Firefox w uBlock turned off for YouTube. It's almost unusable for me. They're not just degrading the experience of ad-blocking users. They're also sabotaging users of non-Chrome web browsers.

I have a 2Gbps internet connection, and at my desktop running Firefox, I can’t reliably stream anything fancier than 1080p60. In the next room on my TV with an AndroidTV box attached, 4K60 streams flawlessly.

I never see ads because I pay for Premium, yet they still fuck me over.