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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable (blog.google)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

yt pops up that 'slowdowns? read more...' nag while i'm not watching the ad. make me feel special

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

The slowdown is becsuse the adblocker had to take an additional 0.002 seconds to block the ads.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

seems to pause for 5-10 seconds, while the ad plays out of sight. i can wait

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