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Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm using Firefox w uBlock turned off for YouTube. It's almost unusable for me. They're not just degrading the experience of ad-blocking users. They're also sabotaging users of non-Chrome web browsers.

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a 2Gbps internet connection, and at my desktop running Firefox, I can’t reliably stream anything fancier than 1080p60. In the next room on my TV with an AndroidTV box attached, 4K60 streams flawlessly.

I never see ads because I pay for Premium, yet they still fuck me over.

[–] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

I know, it's bad. I posted about it here: https://beehaw.org/post/10393316