![]() ![]() In fact, Google confirmed viewers using ad blockers on YouTube could encounter issues: In response to press requests about the situation, Google did not confirm it is slowing down browser intentionally, but it didn’t deny it, either. Google doesn’t deny slowing down browsers There are reports of this activity happening in Edge as well, although I don’t seem to encounter the issue on either browser using uBlock Origin. When YouTube does finally load, it does so quite quickly. Within this context, you can tell there’s something stopping YouTube from loading right away. ![]() You can see the effect in action in this Reddit post: A Firefox user clicks a Linus Tech Tips video to watch, then stares at a blank screen for five seconds until the video page finally loads into view.Įven from this preview video, it’s evident that this isn’t your average slow network connection issue. How the YouTube slowdown worksįirefox who first noticed the “artificial slowdown,” reporting that loading a YouTube video takes a solid five seconds in Mozilla’s browser, while loading instantaneously in Google’s. Now, the company appears to be slowing down YouTube speeds on non-Chrome browsers such as Firefox and Edge. Not everyone is experiencing this anti-ad blocker strategy yet, but that doesn’t mean Google is sparing them, either. Soon after, the pop-up doesn’t close, at least not until YouTube detects the user disables their ad blocker. Users start by seeing a pop-up warning them not to use ad blockers on YouTube, but are able to close it and continue on. First, the company began getting aggressive with viewers visiting YouTube with ad blockers. ![]()
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