Funny, because my ad-blocked vids load just fine in Safari
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can't circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they'd just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
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And this right here ladies and gentlemen (and other) is why we need to host our own. Hopefully somebody comes up with a peer2peer based youtube competitor.
I don't know about peer2peer but decentralized alternative exists. e.g. peertube
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What's that federated video service that carries a bunch of YouTube videos?
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Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
It was happening for several days with me but it seems to be fixed now