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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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[–] superpants@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've never seen this fake load thing and I always use Firefox

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[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Freetube on PCs, LibreTube on Android. Block that, fuck-o.

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[–] Willer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Youtube be like: "Theyre the same people"

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not experiencing that issue on Grayjay 👍

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did we function before youtube. besides music videos I rarely like video anything. howto skip skip skip. Used up all my skips on amazon too.

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Piped or FreeTube on desktop.

LibreTube on mobile. SmartTube on Android TV.

I haven't had to deal with Google's crap in a while. All of these have no ads and have Sponsorblock built-in. I do miss the algorithm's suggestions but I do discover new content creators through Nebula (and FreeTube has decent related video suggestions in my experience).

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