How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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I do, on desktop anyway
I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.
Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can't circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they'd just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
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And this right here ladies and gentlemen (and other) is why we need to host our own. Hopefully somebody comes up with a peer2peer based youtube competitor.
I don't know about peer2peer but decentralized alternative exists. e.g. peertube
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I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?
It won't be possible in the future. It should be happening soonish if I'm remembering correctly. There's a change to how add-ons will be allowed to work in chrome.
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It was happening for several days with me but it seems to be fixed now