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I will gladly wait 1 minute of video loading before playing than watch 2 skippable ads that I need to click skip on.

Hell, I will go rampage and claim that I'll wait 5 minutes before video starts rather than watch a single 30s ad.

What ad lock do you use with ublock I don't remember it showing

*Laughs in ReVanced

The interruptions supposedly caused by my adblock are tiny compared to the interruptions when I turn it off.

Experiencing bullets in your foot? Remove your kevlar and helmet.

It's funny, I found that switching tabs will immediately make it start playing the video. The idea of losing you entirely is too much, I guess

I don't spend a lot of time on there, so some of the "new to me" stuff is probably fairly old.

But, I hopped on this weekend searching for videos on a specific topic and I was inundated with "Shorts". Brief clips that from what I gather contain no valuable information and which require you to be on crack or meth to keep up with? I dunno?

Then I noticed that an old account I used to watch way back in the day showed up on my subscriptions page, so I clicked in to look at that, and now they have accounts or videos that you have to pay to watch/subscribe to? Is this OnlyFans without the sex stuff now?

Then to top it off, the close captions are apparently 100% AI and every sentence displayed is something like "Gum potion trial and barrier for job put chin". Like I thought this stuff was supposed to be intelligent, it's basically right there in the name, or am I missing something?

Their website is so laggy and slow I didn't realize it was intentional

I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I'm avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.

So much malicious code going on to piss us off and force compliance. And normies have no idea this is a thing.

Ah yes, experience a <15 second loading buffer...

Or watch potentially multiple entire minute long, unskippable adverts.

Honestly part of me has considered paying for YouTube premium - but aside from not having to fight off ADs, I don't care about the other perks, and am more than happy to just give to the creators directly without Google getting a cut.

What interruptions, Youtube? Literally nothing changed other than the fact there aren't ads playing.

I'm using Firefox with Ublock Origin, and it's really funny that youtube videos open without any problems or delays, but still, the questions about interruptions appear. They failed to ruin my user experience, but still fucking hope they did.

I don't even get the "find out why" link. It's literally just a popup that says "experiencing interruptions?" with no explanation. Just there to taunt me

Heat heat.

I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I'm okay paying for it.

But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.

No YouTube I'm not experiencing any interruptions

i just use freetube and newpipe

I found that opening several videos in different tabs and letting the tabs load in the background minimises YouTube's deliberate slowdown of videos.

Oh dont worry I actually do pay for the "convenience" of premium and I still experience interruptions, youtube either refusing to load the video list for minutes at a time or severe buffering issues watching a stream with left leaning content, usually losing a second out of every five unless I turn the phone screen off and just listen to the audio. I'm expect it will only get shittier too