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[-] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago

I don't always click on a YouTube ad, but when I do it's a UI failure because it's an accidental click. How much do you want to bet this crackdown is a distraction from the fact their ad system doesn't perform as well as advertised?

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[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Good things come to those who wait (and block ads)

[-] camelbeard@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Also I'd rather wait without ads than wait with ads, like what's the point?

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

If you wait in front of an empty screen it's much more pleasant than being in front of visual and audio spam drilling into your head.

It's of course true that YouTube can't support a website for free, so it would be the correct thing to watch some ads: problems arising are that (A) some ads are malicious (either as misinformation or as viruses or as links to those), (B) they've grown from a reasonable amount to an unreasonable one and often interrupted at the worst possible time)

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago
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[-] Crafter72@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Been using revanced, sometimes using Iceraven (ff fork) w/ ublock origin on phone, and using librewolf (another ff fork) also w/ ublock origin on desktop. So far never encountered slow down since November 2023.

Is this slow down only on select extension issue? Although when it first happend (late 2023) I was thrown up by sudden yt not loading on my librewolf but it only happend only on single day, afterward it gone.

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Trying to use it via Firefox is pointless. I just downloaded the video and pirated. Fuck YouTube.

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