• @tias@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    476 months ago

    I don’t have an ad blocker, I just have the standard strict tracking protection enabled in Firefox. What’s more, I pay for YouTube Premium. But still they add a five-second delay every time I visit a web page. It’s infuriating.

    • KillingTimeItself
      link
      fedilink
      English
      286 months ago

      there is no way the 5 second sleep before loading isnt anti competitive, because last i heard, unless they changed it, it only checks for the firefox user agent.

      Actually insane that someone would willingly implement that.

      • @fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        26 months ago

        If I were to guess, non-android smart tv. There are very few options if any for these TVs. Since I got my TCL google tv I just put smarttube on it and that was it, no more ads and cast still works. But can’t do that with parents’ old chromecast or lg TVs

        • @tias@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          3
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          If anyone is curious about the reason, my primary motivation for having Premium is that I don’t want my kids to see more ads than necessary, and they’re on YouTube on their phones, on the Chromecast (connected to a dumb projector) and on the computer.

          The YouTube app has a lot to offer them that they won’t get in other apps and I can’t realistically force them to use other alternatives everywhere. Especially since I have shared custody and they’ll be using YouTube at their mom’s place as well.