• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I’m avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.

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      1 month ago

      I have ad blockers on my PC, use Smarttube on my Firestick, and ReVanced on my phone. And when someone sends me a youtube link in a group chat or something and I click it, it’ll open the standard Youtube. 1/2 ads, 30+ seconds long, can’t skip them… I just don’t even bother watching what you sent me.