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.”

  • yiliu@informis.land
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    1 year ago

    Well, first, YouTube was better before people started getting paid anyway.

    Second: they could use Patreon or one of those platforms. They could put embedded ads in their videos, like podcasts do. They could have members-only servers. There’s a lot of options.

    It won’t happen, though, cuz the bigger question is: how do instances pay for storage and bandwidth? That’s not optional, that must be paid for.