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[–] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Youtube definitely hinders the experience if you have adblockers. I've had a page load instantly and the video start to buffer immediately, only to refresh on its own a fraction of a second later, load the page slowly, and then wait about 10 seconds before any buffering would happen. If adblockers are disabled, the page loads instantly and the video buffers immediately.

I also regularly get the little popup in the corner saying "Experiencing interruptions?" but shockingly only if the adblocker is enabled. Weird.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I read somewhere that this is because adblockers sometimes can't block the ad so they just block audio and video from it and wait it out.

    I've no idea if it's true.

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