YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
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They are probably trying to find that spot where it's just slightly more annoying to block ads than leave them unblocked.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:01 zuletzt editiert vonCurrently blocking ads consists of keeping uBlock Origin up to date. Not blocking ads generally means going to a different platform after a single ad roll.
I have no issues with pre-roll ads; it’s the interstitial ones that drive me away.
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It's a tarpit. If they simply displayed a blocked "no vids for u" message, you'd get outraged, go complain online, look for workarounds, and eventually find a bypass. If everything still works but poorly, you get annoyed, turn off your adblocker to troubleshoot, possibly blame the adblocker for being "buggy" and keep it off. Their help page solution implies they are hoping for just that. There is no "smoking gun" blocked message to go complain online about, even though it is indeed their servers that are degrading your connection on purpose in secret. Or maybe you give up and leave their ecosystem entirely, which is no big loss for them.
The proper solution is to develop an adblock that they cannot detect is blocking ads. This may require actually downloading the ad video in background, and then lying that the video has played.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:04 zuletzt editiert vonI’d be more likely to just assume delivery quality was going downhill and look for another streaming video hoster/provider. Why would someone link slow speeds to a plugin that filters out the stuff you don’t want?
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If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.
If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:05 zuletzt editiert vonSo you don't find something else to do.
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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.
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I’d be more likely to just assume delivery quality was going downhill and look for another streaming video hoster/provider. Why would someone link slow speeds to a plugin that filters out the stuff you don’t want?
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:12 zuletzt editiert vonStripping down to a skeleton of a software is standard troubleshooting procedure. Ever had a plugin crash and consume 100% cpu? I had. Only way to sense is that fans are spinning up and page is laggy, and then look in about:performance and there it is. No one would have ever suspected that the website you're visiting is deliberately introducing bugs in secret if it thinks you're adblocking.
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Thanks uBO team I don't even know yt is trying anything
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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:44 zuletzt editiert vonI have already started finding peertube replacement channels.
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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 03:44 zuletzt editiert vonI have already started finding peertube replacement channels.
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I'm trying very, VERY hard to pound the correct knowledge into my brain to be able to switch my freelance business services away from Google to something like Proton Unlimited.
Leaving the Google ecosystem will literally make me lose work, but man, this shit has gotta stop
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Jokes on them, I already watch videos at 0.5x
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Currently blocking ads consists of keeping uBlock Origin up to date. Not blocking ads generally means going to a different platform after a single ad roll.
I have no issues with pre-roll ads; it’s the interstitial ones that drive me away.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:17 zuletzt editiert vonI have an issue with pre-roll ads. Some of them are extremely long and can't be skipped
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Jokes on them, I already watch videos at 0.5x
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:21 zuletzt editiert vonThats a good one for 0.5x (soup store)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fNcYtcVn-8k -
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it already happened, it takes few seconds to star the video, a popup comes upa nd says, "whats slowing your video down"
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If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.
If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:38 zuletzt editiert von ledericas@lemm.eei have been blocking them fro 10+years with none other than UBO. only recently i added more adblockers, to block other stuff the ubo wouldnt.
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Currently blocking ads consists of keeping uBlock Origin up to date. Not blocking ads generally means going to a different platform after a single ad roll.
I have no issues with pre-roll ads; it’s the interstitial ones that drive me away.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:39 zuletzt editiert von ledericas@lemm.eei added 2-3 other adblockers. and i use UBLOCK origin to bypass facebooks login popup to look at posts. because making a fake acct for fb is extremely difficult, one of the few places on the internet that i can download new maps of old rpg game(linked to thier drive).
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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I'll find something better to do with my time.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:43 zuletzt editiert vonMaybe people will start torrenting youtube rips if they somehow manage to kill ad blockers.
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i have been blocking them fro 10+years with none other than UBO. only recently i added more adblockers, to block other stuff the ubo wouldnt.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:50 zuletzt editiert vonThat's probably a bad idea, as it makes it more likely YouTube will detect the ad-blocking. Better to add your own custom rules to UBO instead.
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I'm trying very, VERY hard to pound the correct knowledge into my brain to be able to switch my freelance business services away from Google to something like Proton Unlimited.
Leaving the Google ecosystem will literally make me lose work, but man, this shit has gotta stop
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 04:52 zuletzt editiert von bassomitron@lemmy.worldThe problem is, nothing short of NA and EU governmental intervention will force Google to stop being such a nefarious, monopolistic, antitrust piece of shit. They're just so utterly ubiquitous for Western businesses. You cannot have a small business* and hope to be successful without partaking in either Google or Facebook/Meta's ad services. TikTok was becoming a huge threat to both those companies and look how viciously they were attacked.
The whole thing is beyond fucked, man. Kudos to you for trying to break free for your business, but I feel like you'll just be fucking yourself in the long run.
Edit in advance: I should clarify that there will of course be exceptions where a small business can be successful just fine without advertising, but for those that rely on being discovered on a larger scale versus purely local, it is essential.
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I have already started finding peertube replacement channels.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 05:50 zuletzt editiert vonAny recommendations?
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If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.
If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 05:50 zuletzt editiert vonIf you went somewhere else their competition is winning (directly as another video site and indirectly as anything else you would do with your time).
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