YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser
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YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.

YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser | The delay is intentional, but targeting users who continue using ad blockers, and not tied to any browse…::YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.

    • 1bluepixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      1 year ago

      I tried this exact scenario and didn’t see any difference in load times. I’m using an ad blocker and it’s definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s actually been confirmed that the 5-second wait happens regardless of browser. Even with Chrome.

    • Goronmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      How thoroughly was this tested? Because you can summarize a lot of these types of timing differences with one word.

      Caching.

      And from my experience people tend to overlook this when running casual tests like this.

      • MüThyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        This is 100% anecdotal of course, but I’ve noticed weirdly inconsistent behaviour. I have one tab I permanently keep open for YouTube and that one loads videos really fast. If I open a second tab by following a link from that main tab, then it partly loads the site and sits there for a weirdly long time before any content even appears.

        I’ve got a really fast connection too, and nothing else was having issues. This whole thing is bizarre.