That's a relief. I've been dreading the day when they introduce server-side adsm but it seems we're not there yet 😅 I'm not sure what they think they'll accomplish with this when it's A LOT less painful than turning off your adblocker and dealing with the ads, though. Maybe they're just trying random things to see what works.

Grayjay :)

I also think they slowed it down for firefox users.

Oh no, where will I get my AI slop?

I'll wait.

Good, kill your product

Is google’s company motto still ‘Don’t be evil’?

HA! Jokes on them! I'm running a budget dell PC from 10 years ago! The PC itself is slower than any delays they cause! I'm talkin' 3-5 minutes to load each video. Sometimes the whole PC freezes, and you need to unplug it. Sometimes the browser crashes right at the end, so you gotta relaunch the browser, and then wait 20 minutes for all the tabs to populate. Then you gotta end task on all the individual windows. Then you gotta reload just the tab you're looking at, and THEN you can wait 5 minutes again.

You think I'm even going to notice your 10 second delay?

Wish they could use Gemini to generate ad clicks instead.

uBlock Origin->gear icon (settings)->My Filters->add this line:

||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com