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."

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.”

  • SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Imagine, 100 people trying to load a video from your single hard drive, it’s not fast enough for that.

    YouTube 1080p is 8-10 Mbit/s according to what I could find. That’d be 100-125 MByte/s for 100 people. I think my SSD is more than fast enough for that.

    Even better, a 1 Gbps connection is also (just) enough to actually upload the video to those 100 people.

    And with 100+ people watching, P2P distribution should work really well too.