fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoYouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square383fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down116
arrow-up11Karrow-down1external-linkYouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave9to5google.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square383fedilink
minus-squareTeoTwawki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down1·11 months ago“We’ll make our service worse, that’ll show them!” Ok google, good luck with that.
minus-squaresoggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months agoUnless you inform those customers with some kind of UI that they’re being throttled because of ad-block how does Google expect them to uninstall it? I genuinely believe they are trying to push adblock users off the platform completely
minus-squarekingthrillgore@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoAt this point I’m convinced they’re trying to drive people away to shrink the overhead on bandwidth and servers, but it doesn’t work like that. Not after you got them hooked on videos of cats after years of a steady drip of memes.
“We’ll make our service worse, that’ll show them!”
Ok google, good luck with that.
Unless you inform those customers with some kind of UI that they’re being throttled because of ad-block how does Google expect them to uninstall it?
I genuinely believe they are trying to push adblock users off the platform completely
At this point I’m convinced they’re trying to drive people away to shrink the overhead on bandwidth and servers, but it doesn’t work like that. Not after you got them hooked on videos of cats after years of a steady drip of memes.