Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…

  • echo64@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I know everyone wants to be mad, and I’m no fan of Google. But this is almost certainly an unintentional bug.

    Google, more than anything, wants watch hours for ad money. They don’t want you frustrated by the alow ux. They want you watching advertisements.

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      2 years ago

      wants watch hours for ad money

      Ads which can still be blocked fairly easily on Firefox, unlike in Chrome, which is banning ublock(& likely all other blockers) browser-wide next year. They want to make the firefox experience worse so people have a reason to go back to their ad infested browser.

      • echo64@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Nah this doesn’t make sense. You, and everyone else, will sit through five seconds of loading vs watching an ad. You know this, Google know this.

        Occams razor is at play here. If they want to to be conspiratorial, they have better and smarter ways to do it.

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    2 years ago

    Ah, even more reason for me to use less Youtube.

    Been substituting it with Nebula, Odysee, and just watching less video content.

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      2 years ago

      @BombOmOm @furycd001
      I am sort of in a content slump right now. The YouTube adblocker blocker has me watching much less and noticing the content actually kinda sucks.

      Most news sites are either paywalled or adblocked blocked or so stuffed with ads it’s unreadable.

      Even my library app doesn’t have books newer than like 2019.

      This DRM shit totally sucks.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        What ad blocker are you using? I’m using ublock origin and I still haven’t seen the ad blocker blocker thing on anything.