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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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[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

They forced our hands in creating and using adblockers. Remember how awful the web was getting before we could adblock? Pop ups, force play videos with full sound, entire webpages full of ads with a tiny bit of content in the middle.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The funniest part is that the abject uselessness of web ads is well known to the advertisers. They do it anyway, and for so little gain that it's effectively a statistical rounding error. They have no idea what else to do soon they shrug and burn the money anyway because thems the rules of capitalism.

[-] Wilibus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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