Technology

I didn’t know if I’m crazy or of YouTube is genuinely slow for me (with adblocker)

Turns out I was not crazy

I watch ad free, and screen off through the Brave browser. All good for now.

Why aren't you using another platform?

I've been seeing this for a couple weeks now along with a popup telling me "ad blockers aren't allowed" at work where I'm forced to use Chrome. I have UBlock Lite installed. Typically a refresh takes care of the popup and a 10 second delay later, the video loads.

Been using revanced for months and haven't noticed a difference other than no ads or sponsors on bigger channels.

We can live without YouTube, they can’t live without us.

"Is your video not loading ? Check out why, you fucking ad dodging commie" is the feeling i got from youtube's newest message while my video was unexpectedly taking 10s to load

Revanced is fine so far

Why do i feel like this happened a while ago? Like, isn't this old news? Or "olds" as it were?

Then I suppose it's a good thing they're limiting non-premium users from using the "high bitrate" quality options?

^ that was sarcasm. HARSH sarcasm. With both middle fingers pointing toward a Google logo and spitting.

They cannot kill Adblocks, because if they would — a lot of html5 embedded YouTube videos would be coming worthless and so would youtube (discord for example)

I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.

So here's what happened recently:

• I opened the Google News widget on my Android phone, saw a Sponsored link, and found it interesting
• Clicked on it, the link opened in Chrome, opening the googleadservices redirection thingummy
• Took over 5 seconds to process the redirect
• I exited the browser

Guess who missed ad money?

But of course, maybe they got the ad money and the only losers were:

• me, who didn't get to see the website that might actually have had something I wanted
• the website owner, who not only didn't get my business but also had to pay Google, because Google most probably processed the ad first and didn't care to process the redirect

I feel like I understand why they removed the "Do no evil" sign. Because now, they are messing with both, the product and the customers, only providing as much as is required to take their money, instead of the full, advertised service.

I'll wait.

fine by me i listen to audio of videos i watch and i dont mind the lower resolution because it means im using less internet