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
I experience suboptimal viewing by having to watch ads. If I had to pick one or the other, I know which one I prefer.
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.
More likely, people will stop using YouTube at all
Hahaha, no.
This goes against all the fundamental principles of how the Internet is supposed to work.
It really doesn’t, they can do whatever they want with their website.
It really does because Google happens to control the browser that now dominates the market by a wide margin, and it’s using it’s monopoly position to break the internet. It’s incredible that people can’t understand the problem with this.
