If that’s real, I’m pretty sure the EU will have something to say about that, as well as the FCC. That’s a flagrant violation of net neutrality.

YouTube slowly trying to push me off their platform.

I will quit YouTube before watching ads.

Nice try reddit.

Huh. I had noticed that.

I fuckin knew it! I could've sworn this was happening. I would switch to brave to watch something and would be able to no problem. Fuckin bastards.

If Youtube isn’t allowed to check my browser if I use ublock origin. Is it allowed to check what browser I use and restrict curtain things?

the reddit link is trying to force me to log in. Has reddit changed its policies again?

Using Firefox, I have always had User agent switcher handy. It's a huge shame but it stops from this kind of stupid shit from happening.

The team at the ublock origin sub have found a filter for ublock that disables it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17tm9rp/comment/k9i62zu/

Am paying for yt premium (grandfathered from Google Play music.) Wonder if they're doing that to paying customers.

I had noticed too. Although I mostly use FreeTube by now I am a tab hoarder and if I open a YouTube tab with a video in Firefox it does take a few seconds until the page is displayed correctly after the tab has finished loading.

I've also noticed Revanced needs updated pretty often or it gets fucked. I really don't want to have to switch to an alternative that doesn't allow me to sign in to my account, but I refuse to give in to Alphabets demands.

But the video loads faster than you watch the video, so what's the point?

Edit: Okay I checked the evidence. It's loading the page, not video buffering. But the evidence is extremely unscientific and bullshit so I'd reserve judgement until someone actually looks into it properly. The top comments are also pointing out even weaker evidence. There is some code that waits for a five second timer to finish, but the page doesn't take 5 seconds or even .5 seconds to load, so that's obviously not to slow down the page load. There are plenty of legitimate use cases for waiting for everything to load and the user to start engaging before worrying about whatever secondary tasks.