I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.

  • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    That the VPN providers, because it gives them a captive market, are internationally pushing for rules like those that exist in UK and Aussie

    And they’re profiteering

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      This has the slight problems that:

      • The UK’s now trying to make VPNs illegal, and was obviously going to because of the obvious flaws in the Online Safety Act.
      • They consulted with MindGeek about the law before passing it, and they own most of the sites with a route to remain viable businesses under the current law, and several agree verification services, so they’re a much better company to blame for this.
      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        The UK’s now trying to make VPNs illegal

        It’s all posturing

        verification services

        Multiple companies can be colluding together, to be fair