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.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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’

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      To be clear that is not new, that was a thing already before. Like from around July some people were already getting that.