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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's mostly true but i can imagine them trying to render the ads directly into video or something to make it unakippable. Just like plain old TV ads.

[–] tristar@lemmyfly.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Re-rendering 4k videos (or of any other quality fwiw) with ads included would probably incur more electricity costs than they could ever make through the ads. TV could afford to do this since they transmit the same program and the same ads to everyone. Youtube targets them per user, so they'd need to render the same video, in high quality, every time any user clicks on it.

[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's big corpo stuff. Once company grows over certain size left hand stops loosing sight of the right hand.
In other words one team gets task to make sure ads aren't skipped ever, they don't get rewarded for saying its dump idea but for implementation .
Later comes other team that gets task to fifure out why the hell electricity bill went up.
Then after that they figure out best way to save money is to reduce employee count.
Then after the adblocking sensation gets old, some one else responsible for perfomance comes with idea that rendering ads is inefficient and they will go back to popup ads.

It often doesn't make sense and costumer service gets worse as companies grow so i wouldn't be surpriced by something like this at all.