If you are using the open source Firefox web browser to browse YouTube and watch its videos, then you might have noticed that there is an artificial delay
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…
Question: since adblockers are against their TOS now, why don’t they just remove them from the web store ?
Only a fool would miss that opportunity to market their browser at that point, but its seems strange to me they’re playing this gang war
First They went after invidious, then they slowly started blocking adblocker only for desktop users…
I think that the plan is to not hit people where it hurts directly ( which is mobile phones ), just start slowly taking things that only matter to a small percentage of users, and once that’s taken care of, move to more noticeable stuff
Question: since adblockers are against their TOS now, why don’t they just remove them from the web store ?
Only a fool would miss that opportunity to market their browser at that point, but its seems strange to me they’re playing this gang war
First They went after invidious, then they slowly started blocking adblocker only for desktop users…
I think that the plan is to not hit people where it hurts directly ( which is mobile phones ), just start slowly taking things that only matter to a small percentage of users, and once that’s taken care of, move to more noticeable stuff