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.”
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.”
Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can’t circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they’d just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
Doubtful. I’d rather see a black, silent screen for 30 seconds then an ad for some clone of a game.
They can’t. If they make the wait period too long, people will just think YT is down. And experiencing constant downtime on a content delivery platform is really bad PR.