• tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    I don’t have an ad blocker, I just have the standard strict tracking protection enabled in Firefox. What’s more, I pay for YouTube Premium. But still they add a five-second delay every time I visit a web page. It’s infuriating.

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      10 months ago

      Might as well just stop paying for premium then if they’re going to ding you anyway.

    • muh_entitlement@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Why pay when you can watch it for free without ads through piped video! Pirate everything, live for free!!

      • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        If I were to guess, non-android smart tv. There are very few options if any for these TVs. Since I got my TCL google tv I just put smarttube on it and that was it, no more ads and cast still works. But can’t do that with parents’ old chromecast or lg TVs

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      there is no way the 5 second sleep before loading isnt anti competitive, because last i heard, unless they changed it, it only checks for the firefox user agent.

      Actually insane that someone would willingly implement that.