• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Use a browser and uBlock Origin.

    The YouTube app has become absolutely unbearable. Like please, I don’t want to play games within the YouTube app ffs.

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      And the browser rather Firefox based ( or at least any browser that supports mv2 ) and yes all of the branches of chromium will not be able to support mv2 forever as google will literally remove it from chromium next year.

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      YouTube for me now on Librewolf + uBlock Origin doesn’t even load a single video past like 30 seconds for me now so I’ve just moved over to using FreeTube

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          I didn’t have an issue for 10 years (firefox+ublock origin too) and suddenly I saw a 6 second ad on a video I had stopped, I got jumpscared. They definitely are getting more aggressive with their tactics.

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    I’m sure we’ve all experienced this to some extent, but I also feel like confirmation bias can play a large role here, so im curious. Is there actually something running in the background that boosts ads over actual content? Is there any literature or first hand employee (YouTube or similar) experience on this

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        CDN would be my guess as well. Maybe not different, but they would definitely have their ads queued up on every CDN possible while the video content is unlikely to be on your nearest CDN unless it’s a Mr. Beast video