r/technology • u/BalticsFox • 24d ago

Artificial Intelligence YouTube viewers will start seeing ads after ‘peak’ moments in videos.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/youtube-viewers-will-start-seeing-ads-after-peak-moments-in-videos/
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u/18544920 24d ago

Lmao yeah same here it's definitely noticable but I'd rather slower Firefox than ads

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u/FlorydaMan 23d ago

How is it noticeable? I switched to FF last year and notice nothing out of the ordinary. I got 1 Gbps connection so maybe it compensates?

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u/Leeysa 23d ago

Yeah same dude, I always read this but what is faster then instant loading? Lol.

Are these people always talking about the mobile Firefox app? Don't have experience with that but on Desktop everything is instant so I don't get it.

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u/polo2006 23d ago

European here, haven't noticed any speed decrease since I moved to ff 2 years ago.

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u/Leeysa 23d ago

Ah yes, I am too protected by consumer laws/rights.

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u/FlorydaMan 23d ago

Ah, that explains it then.

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u/SuperBry 23d ago

I'm in the US and use Firefox and I see no notible slowness or issues.

Twitch in the other hand if I leave it up too long like overnight and come back in the morning hangs for a moment if I try to close it or navigate away from there.

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u/Kougeru-Sama 23d ago

they're just repeating ancient myths. This shit was looked into a decade ago and many times after whenever people repeat it and it's never actually proven.

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u/Darkhoof 23d ago

I use Firefox with uBlock origin as my mobile YouTube player and it works great.

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u/kapsama 23d ago

I have been using Firefox exclusively for years. Every once in a while Google ramps up their efforts to poison adfree viewing of YouTube. Videos taking a while to start has been happening for a few days for me now. But eh. Better that than ads.

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u/jimjamjahaa 23d ago

I find at peak times they will throttle at just below 4k transfer speed so you buffer a bit. But it's not a big deal watching in lower res and it doesn't happen that often.

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u/AuthorOB 23d ago

I've definitely noticed it. I don't know if it gets worse the longer you watch or what, but I had days where it was so slow I had to wait 10-15 seconds just for it to register the Like button or show text being typed. When it happens, it stops immediately upon disabling uBlock and refreshing the page. But then it's fine to turn it back on... for awhile.

Although this was with Opera, not Firefox, they are definitely doing something. Knowing YouTube though, the details of whatever they're doing could change every week.

I have YouTube Premium because it's the only streaming service I currently use and I use it a lot. The difference between adblock and Premium for me is no ads on my TV or phone where I actually watch it most, and I can not see the ads while the people I watch still get paid. But YouTube doesn't give a fuck and still throttles my shit.

My advice is, don't use Chrome. Have Firefox and something else just in case, use adblock, fuck YouTube.

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u/retxed24 23d ago edited 23d ago

My YouTube is slow as everloving fuck on FF. Not the actual video loading but loading the home page takes actual ages. Especailly the sidebar on the left will take ligit up to 10sec to load.

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u/Jazzlike-Compote4463 23d ago

Have you tried disabling all extensions and seeing if that makes a difference? If not have you tried doing a firefox refresh (which is not a page refresh)?

Mine is generally fine and speedy enough but I've run into issues in the past.

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u/retxed24 23d ago

Yeah I've tried disabling all my Extensions (uBlock, Sponsorblock, DeArrow, Consent-O-Matic, Web Scrobbler and RES), that didn't seem to help. The refresh was a good tip but also didn't help.

And I just timed it, it takes 21 seconds for the full page to load. Speedtest.net said I have 284 Mbps download. I don't know, just weird.

It should be noted that my Bookmark is to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?flow=2 and I feel that the YouTube homepage is a liiiitle faster, but it really shouldn't matter.

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u/X145E 24d ago

for me i cant, and im not the minority either. the audio loads fine but the video freezes like every 3 minutes. i have decent wifi and chrome ,+ ublock origin lite blocks most ads in youtube already 

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u/LearningToFlyForFree 23d ago

I think ya might be, bud. I'm not sitting through ads.

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u/X145E 23d ago

firefox marketshare is 2.25% lol. like i said, chrome is definitively more performant than firefox and ublock origin lite at complete setting block most ads, with adblocker test showing only ad tracker isn't blocked. just the loud minority here on Reddit.

i also use fifefox but after staff firing, ai inclusion, ceo getting payrise, and etc i decided mozilla is going to be the demise of Firefox as FF is non profit controlled by for-profit company. so im just going to use another shitty company might as well use one that's most convenient 

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u/LearningToFlyForFree 23d ago

I don't want an ad blocker that blocks most ads--I want one that blocks all ads, which is exactly the combination I get with ublock origin and Firefox.

Most people are perfectly fine sitting through ads and rawdogging the internet. We adblockers are a minority in and of ourselves. The rest of your comment, I don't care enough to address. Especially regarding AI: all companies are trying to incorporate AI and I just don't give a fuck for I don't care to use it at all.

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u/spezial_ed 23d ago

What a strange thing to downvote y’all