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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jan 18, 2024 15:21:15 GMT -5
YouTube is massively slowing videos for anyone who has Adblock on their browser. EVEN if its turned off and EVEN if you have it paused on the site. I really don't get how this can be remotely legal. It absolutely is not in the EU and as we've seen in recent history, the EU isn't having any of tech corps' bullshit. Hell, it's likely one of the only thing keeping them in check. Even Apple didn't get away with their attempts to strongarm customers, and twitter is in genuine danger of being banned outright (pretty sure TikTok is also in the ironsights), so I'm not sure even a company as big as Google wants to f*** around and find out. As much as they want us to think we have no choice, at the end of the day, if they don't have anyone to sell their products to, corporations will eventually behave.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Jan 18, 2024 16:12:17 GMT -5
YouTube is massively slowing videos for anyone who has Adblock on their browser. EVEN if its turned off and EVEN if you have it paused on the site. I really don't get how this can be remotely legal. It absolutely is not in the EU and as we've seen in recent history, the EU isn't having any of tech corps' bullshit. Hell, it's likely one of the only thing keeping them in check. Even Apple didn't get away with their attempts to strongarm customers, and twitter is in genuine danger of being banned outright (pretty sure TikTok is also in the ironsights), so I'm not sure even a company as big as Google wants to f*** around and find out. As much as they want us to think we have no choice, at the end of the day, if they don't have anyone to sell their products to, corporations will eventually behave. EU always leads the way with this stuff. I feel like North American lawmakers are just grandparents who don't even know how to work their TV remotes
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H-Virus
Hank Scorpio
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Post by H-Virus on Jan 22, 2024 11:45:17 GMT -5
Strangely, the only time I’ve experienced slowdown and buffering is on my phone which doesn’t even have an adblocker on it, the site’s been running perfectly fine on my laptop.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 25, 2024 3:15:27 GMT -5
I just got five ads in a row on a video before I could skip and holy shit just STOP.
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Renslayer
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
every time i come around your city...
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Post by Renslayer on Jan 26, 2024 13:42:41 GMT -5
I tried watching a royal rumble match on YouTube and I got 6 ads before it even got to 10 minutes. Wtf
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 26, 2024 19:03:36 GMT -5
I tried watching a royal rumble match on YouTube and I got 6 ads before it even got to 10 minutes. Wtf At what point does Google finally get pressured to cut this shit out? I would have said I could see many people being driven away from YouTube, but there are no better alternatives, unfortunately.
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schma
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Post by schma on Jan 27, 2024 12:24:29 GMT -5
I can't remember if it was here but someone point out that if they try to stop a video playing and you load it up in private browsing mode, it plays even if you have ad blockers.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 30, 2024 4:38:12 GMT -5
I tried watching a royal rumble match on YouTube and I got 6 ads before it even got to 10 minutes. Wtf At what point does Google finally get pressured to cut this shit out? I would have said I could see many people being driven away from YouTube, but there are no better alternatives, unfortunately. It speaks volumes that Daily Motion is the next best option... and that site is a complete mess.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jan 30, 2024 13:28:00 GMT -5
I'm starting to notice the "Takes like 5-10 seconds to start loading a video then it's fine" crap happening to me now. Thought for a moment my net was acting up. Gotta love it.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 30, 2024 14:46:16 GMT -5
I'm starting to notice the "Takes like 5-10 seconds to start loading a video then it's fine" crap happening to me now. Thought for a moment my net was acting up. Gotta love it. Google making YouTube mostly unusable to people who don’t want their privacy invaded is going to bite them in the ass eventually.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 5, 2024 1:07:59 GMT -5
Feel bad them tonight as AdBlock had to stop them from running ads during an ad.
This is why AdBlock, you f***s, this is why AdBlock.
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Rave
El Dandy
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Post by Rave on Feb 5, 2024 1:15:51 GMT -5
Was watching a long video the other night on the PS4 app, paused the video and went to leave the room for a minute, only to see movement out of the corner of my eye.
The movement was a f***ing splitscreen ad! I had to unpause to make it go away.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 10, 2024 2:36:38 GMT -5
The ads are becoming an absolute piss take now. I had a 15 second ad for a 10 second clip from a video game.
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Post by Sparvid on Feb 10, 2024 8:24:04 GMT -5
I don't know what's the deal with the ad blocker blocker. It showed up for a single day on my work computer (Chrome with uBlock) before it disappeared again (and I'm 99% sure that no one in IT made any changes/updates manually since YouTube is not exactly a priority), and I've never even once seen it on my home computer (Firefox with uBlock).
There has been maybe once every 18 months or so where an ad has randomly somehow made it past uBlock, but then it would be fixed by just refreshing the page.
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schma
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Post by schma on Feb 10, 2024 15:40:02 GMT -5
Had to work some overtime last night. During my break I opted to watch so.e youtube. My computer at work doesn't have an ad blocker. My God that shit is annoying. Commercials at the start, commercials every five minutes, often cutting someone off midsentence. Shit like this is part of how streaming services initially got so big. No commercials. At least with cable you could channel surf during the breaks. I'll keep my ad blocker thanks.
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cosmo
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Post by cosmo on Feb 11, 2024 10:21:57 GMT -5
I just wish I could install an adblocker for the YouTube app on my Roku. I watch a lot of YouTube on my TV, and at this point, the ads are getting so excessive that I might as well just hook my laptop up to my TV.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Feb 11, 2024 23:07:37 GMT -5
I just wish I could install an adblocker for the YouTube app on my Roku. I watch a lot of YouTube on my TV, and at this point, the ads are getting so excessive that I might as well just hook my laptop up to my TV. I got a decent third party app for my Google TV that takes ads out.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Feb 11, 2024 23:57:01 GMT -5
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Rave
El Dandy
Perpetually Bored
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Post by Rave on Feb 20, 2024 2:16:56 GMT -5
It's progressed from "three videos and you're out" to a complete block. This is f***ing stupid.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 20, 2024 22:47:23 GMT -5
It's progressed from "three videos and you're out" to a complete block. This is f***ing stupid. By complete block, do you mean a ban? Or just a block until you remove the adblocker? I use UBlock Origin which still works. But as I have a YouTube channel which I make money from, I dont wanna risk a ban lol.
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