And it's worse for users without ad block. Google is just making YouTube worse. My gf got a 53 minute ad the other day... It looked like it was going to be an entire presentation from that company, I don't remember which because we obviously skipped it.
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Strange... I don't feel any delays.
I watch YouTube in two places, one with ad blocking and one without. The five seconds my browser takes to start the video on the ad blocked version is a small price to pay. I routinely get 20 and 25 second unstoppable ads, so waiting 5 at the very start is no big deal.
I'll admit that I've started watching youtube videos via filtering anonymisers so they really have no idea what I'm watching ¯_(ツ)_/¯ makes little difference to me, probably makes a small difference to the content creators but I ain't watching no ads and I ain't giving Google tracking data
Teach me your ways, wise man.
lol. There are a couple of options that don't suck.
I started with freetube - https://freetubeapp.io/ - it's a decent cross platform client.
https://invidious.io is pretty cool
But I like an app, and since I'm in the Apple ecosystem I'm currently playing with Play on all my devices - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/play-save-videos-watch-later/id1596506190 It allows you to stack videos for later viewing, categorize them and then play them back via Invidious
I'm also looking at running my own Invidious server
They've been pretty open about it, what with their "We don't allow ad blockers" pop ups
I'm a little confused about this. Apparently they know who is doing ad blocking, so why the hell would they do a delay instead of the annoying popup saying to fuck off with the ad block?
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