Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
Even though it doesn’t apply for me (praise Freetube and Grayjay!) I’d rather waste 5 second looking at black than any ad ever
Jesus Christ, why can’t they just leave it alone. At this point they are grasping at straws. More likely, people will stop using YouTube at all than turning off adblockers or switching browsers.
Can we stop panicing every 5 seconds? Give adblockers 1-10 days and they will fix it. We have been through this a bunch of times.
I think it’s less panicking and more informational. The enshittification of Google has commenced and this is just documentation.