1y ago

YouTube is blaming that Firefox delay people been talking about on adblockers.

www.androidauthority.com YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser

YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.

This delay isn't exclusive to Firefox, it's in any browser where a user has enabled adblockers including in Chrome. Disable the adblocker and this delay magically go away. This was done on purpose.

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1y ago

YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser

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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...

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YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser

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To say the quiet part out loud: Bullshit
Google may find that their only option is to paywall YouTube. Too many of us will prefer to pay creators directly rather than letting Google take a cut. And YouTube is not the only game in town.
I admit that I’m pretty much done with YouTube anyway. Their unskippable mid roll ads that interrupt videos mid-word have become obnoxious enough that many creators I follow are jumping ship and advising their viewers where to find them.
- Google may find that their only option is to paywall YouTube.
  They already have Youtube premium. But $14/month is an insane price. I refuse to believe that is anywhere near the typical ad revenue they get from people. That is more than many streaming services.
  
  Not that I support anything their doing, but managing YouTube has to be an order of magnitude more expensive to operate than a streaming service. I actually think they could get some sympathy if they took more of a Wikipedia approach and we're more open about the costs to operate YouTube. However much we might hate Google, YouTube is practically a public good in the way it operates and the world relies on it.
  
  An interesting idea. But non-profit is antithetical to Google’s business model.
  
  How could hosting other people's work and at most giving them a cut of the ad revenue be more expensive than
  A. Paying for streaming rights to other people's work. B. Creating your own works And C. Paying to host all of the above. ???
  Unless you're saying that the hours streamed from YouTube is so vastly more than any streaming service that it out costs all the other costs Netflix etc has in licensing and content creation.
  
  It's not, because it's a lot easier to get someone willing to pay anything in the first place to pay more than it is to convert a free user into a paying one. So as long as a yearly rise doesn't lose them more in profit they'll keep increasing the price it until it does.
  Though I really doubt that on a platform as huge as YouTube halving the cost to $7 wouldn't get them twice the paying customers almost instantly, because $14/month is simply ridiculously expensive.
  
  I'd love to see a plan where you just pay to rid of the ads, but YouTube is past YouTube, they would rather everyone pay YouTube premium as is.
  
  They had that plan over here. But they killed it just before the war against ad block started (it was around half of the price of premium)
- Where are they going? Most of the ones I follow are along the “this sucks, but it’s the only real game in town”, so I’d be interested to check alternatives and see what’s there.
  The big problem with any social or content centric platform is that new ones are only useful for consumers if there are creators and only useful for creators if there are consumers.
  
  Most are headed to Patreon and Vimeo. A few seem likely to try out PeerTube.

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