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Google will never get a cent out of me, willingly.
If it gets annoying enough, and FreeTube stops working, I’ll find something better to do with my time.
Only thing I’m getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I’il take that over an ad that long any day.
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Not German.
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No you are! Like you literally can’t know that. Yes I said I’m Swiss, which is different from German, or you would have to say that the Romands are German and I that would be a dangerous thing to do. I wrote one sentence in German because the server you’re on has the ending for Austria, I could be a romands person who knows German, I could have translated it. How do you even know I’m not lying on the internet, this could be a persona and I’m asking ChatGPT how the French speaking people call themselves. Maybe I’m even a bot trying to sow disorder.
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Check-mate, confusing iso country codes is not a very German thing to do ;-)
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Now we’re getting somewhere, I’m explicitly against Genocide, which is why I support Ukraine and Palestine, both of which have a powerful country genoziding them.
I have another option for you, I could be Tamil, and going to the Hindu Temple in Basel.
If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.
If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?
It’s a tarpit. If they simply displayed a blocked “no vids for u” message, you’d get outraged, go complain online, look for workarounds, and eventually find a bypass. If everything still works but poorly, you get annoyed, turn off your adblocker to troubleshoot, possibly blame the adblocker for being “buggy” and keep it off. Their help page solution implies they are hoping for just that. There is no “smoking gun” blocked message to go complain online about, even though it is indeed their servers that are degrading your connection on purpose in secret. Or maybe you give up and leave their ecosystem entirely, which is no big loss for them.
The proper solution is to develop an adblock that they cannot detect is blocking ads. This may require actually downloading the ad video in background, and then lying that the video has played.
