YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser | The delay is intentional, but targeting users who continue using ad blockers, and not tied to any browse…::YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.
Yeah, sure. That’s why it happens on Firefox even without an adblocker, and goes away when using a user agent switcher to claim you’re using Chrome instead of Firefox while using an adblocker. Because it’s toooooooootally about adblocking.
It’s actually been confirmed that the 5-second wait happens regardless of browser. Even with Chrome.
How thoroughly was this tested? Because you can summarize a lot of these types of timing differences with one word.
Caching.
And from my experience people tend to overlook this when running casual tests like this.
This is 100% anecdotal of course, but I’ve noticed weirdly inconsistent behaviour. I have one tab I permanently keep open for YouTube and that one loads videos really fast. If I open a second tab by following a link from that main tab, then it partly loads the site and sits there for a weirdly long time before any content even appears.
I’ve got a really fast connection too, and nothing else was having issues. This whole thing is bizarre.
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Brave, Orion and Vivaldi are also still standing.
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That is also true of Chromium browser is it not? Can you provide evidence of questionable or unethical privacy practices by Brave?
Here is what code Brave removes. 👍🏻
Where does most of Firefox’s financial support come from? 🤔
Yes it is also true of Chromium which is why it’s not a matter of finance or money. Brave is simply Chromium based, like Chrome, while Firefox is using its own engine.
The other day my wife asked me “what’s that pipe website you use to be able to watch YouTube videos” then I realized it was because she got blocked by YouTube haha
Why does nobody ever list ReVanced for Android on these lists?
Remember that just like with everything YouTube doesn’t apply changes to all users across the whole site simultaneously. They always do gradual rollout with randomized user impact. So as to not upset or raise too many alarms at the same time. It’s been their MO for about 10 years now.
As has been the MO of many large sites for a while now. It’s called blue-green deployment.
Yeah and while I’m sure it is useful for minimizing outrage at controversial changes, it’s mainly to prevent rolling out major bugs to too many people
If that’s blue green deployment, then what is red yellow deployment?
I’ve got Firefox and Ublock, and don’t see any delays, warnings, etc. It may have to do with the fact that I’m not signed in with an account.
This also appears to be in an A/B test or something similar. It isn’t happening for everyone (yet).
Yeah it looks like they’ve switched away from the 5-second penalty for having ad blockers to counting down the number of videos you’ll be shown, then after 3-2-1 it’s ‘adblockers violate youtube’s toc’
To be clear that is not new, that was a thing already before. Like from around July some people were already getting that.
I’m using DNS level ad blocking, anyone else not experiencing anything weird?
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