https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-is-making-videos-load-slowly-on-purpose-for-some-users No matter what you do @google I will find ways to a) not watch ads and b) not pay you a cent ever
Where’s FedEx free shipping?
It is called monopoly
Maybe TikTok expands, targets longer videos, and eats YouTube’s lunch in the process
I searched internally for this and found post mortem. The cl was meant to have 5 second delay for certain users with ad blocker (this was suppose to be rolled out to everyone eventually) because there were certain extensions out there which would never show user the ad but fast forward the ad (using script injection). So this check was suppose to combat such users. But unfortunately this behaved unexpectedly in presence of u block origin. This change was then rolled back. There are several threads out there which says Google slowing videos on Firefox and/or only certain uses. But all that is false. This will soon happen on all browsers and everyone using ad blocker. Google is aware of each and every ad blocking mechanism out there including networking level ad blocking via pi hole and brave browser. Bottomline is Google doesn't care about user experience for users who use ad blocker (since they can't make any money from them). It's very sad that youtube/Google has reached this point.
Sad indeed. Thanks for the insight
This is worse than cable. For skippable ads, if I don’t manually skip it’s a nightmare
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Today I got an ad of 1 minutes and 15 seconds with no skip option. Also, they have moved the "loop" feature in additional settings, to make it less accessible. So that, new videos keep playing and ads keep being shown. YouTube is slowly converting into our good old television with long frequent ads.
I just click something else if I get an Ad that long,nothing on YT is that important.
I refreshed the page and it gave me an ad of 5 seconds which was tolerable 🙂