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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

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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."

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[-] C_M@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago

Same holds for YouTube. They just got rid of the only no ads subscription here. Which was half the price of premium. So they kick people out of that, and afterwards going to war with ad blockers... If they really wanted as much people as possible to pay, they would have kept that abbo. But probably it's better for them financially to have a bit more with ad blockers and ads and convert some to the premium tier

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