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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 130 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Hahahahaha, do they know that using it without the ad blocker is worse than whatever else they're going to do? I'd rather stare at 30 seconds of black screen than a 5 second ad, lmao.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I remember waiting 30 minutes for 75% of a badly compressed 1 minute pornvideo to load, I can outlast whatever they throw at us.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Good thing you only needed 75% of that 1 minute porn video, or you'd have had to wait even longer.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's the expectation and imagination in the meantime that does it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Well actually they can do much more, like for example decreasing quality to lets say 144p

    I'm not saying that adblockers will not be able to bypass it, maybe there will be a solution as well, but wanted to say that the blank screen waiting is not their only weapon

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    *a 5 second ad every 5 minutes

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it was really that little I wouldn't be so up in arms about it. I put a video on yesterday and had 30 seconds of ads before it started and then another 30 seconds of ads after a minute and a half. Fuck that nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Usually the only thing I find YouTube uses for is those short 30 seconds of a video I have searched for. Like how to DIY something or quick, visualdemonstrations of concepts.

    As bad as YouTube has gotten, it's already super common for me to skip over the first four or five search results, which are usually YouTube links, and just go to like the 4th or 5th one down, and fine. It's just as useful. If I was blind or couldn't read, that would suck, but I can live without YouTube like, I mostly already do, and used to, too.

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