Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The funniest part is that the abject uselessness of web ads is well known to the advertisers. They do it anyway, and for so little gain that it’s effectively a statistical rounding error. They have no idea what else to do soon they shrug and burn the money anyway because thems the rules of capitalism.