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Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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I'm so used to the sponsorship thing that I just instinctively tap/click the right side of the screen a few times to skip it.
(As for why I don't use sponsorblock: I don't block them because I wanna take a few seconds to take a peak into the sponsor segment to make sure they don't have very evil sponsors like ahem "Betterhelp" (I don't trust someone that still have that as a sponsor in 2025)
Edit: Also, I'm pretry sure someone will build a locally run AI model that can detect the ads/buffering and cut it out. "AI" might not give you true information in terms of search results, but pattern recognition is like its main job, right?