Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You assume people are rational, they are not

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like a cynical back end developer. Communication is key.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You can lead a troglodyte to knowledge but you can't make them think.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What user-agent would work to stop google from throttling YouTube?

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As I said User-Agent switcher for Firefox gets rid of the 5 second wait before the site loads.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, and my question was: using the user-agent switcher, which user agent do you switch to in order to get rid of the 5 second wait before the site loads?

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Just select Chrome. Google uses the delay specifically on Firefox. I only enable it for Youtube and Gmail URLs because it can mess with other websites.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If I spend half an hour to find an implement a workaround (because finding ways around YT's advertising is not my hobby) then I'd have to watch 60 unskippable 30 second ads to break even, every single time they upgrade their cat-and-mouse. I don't watch that much youtube in a month, probably not in 3 months.