YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads

Oh no I might have to spool them instead and not be influenced by the cybernetics either. What a tragedy. Maybe they'll figure out how to block yt-dlp and I'll have to watch the few valuable math videos from their creators sites. I don't know how I'll live then.

Everytime news like this comes up, I'm never affected. I'm using uBlock Origin. Is there something unique about uBlock Origin? Are other adblockers easily noticed by YouTube?

TFA mentions complaints from users of Brave browser, which appears to use it's own bespoke ad-blocker [0]. It includes some filters from uBlock Origin [1], but these files are six years old. Are those filters updated at runtime (e.g. from [2], [3], [4], [5])? If so, then why include old filters in the repo? Surely, Brave isn't using six year old filters.

[0] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

[1] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust/tree/master/data/uBloc...

[2] https://easylist.to/

[3] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters

[4] https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#malicious-u...

[5] https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

I have been experiencing this for the last 2 days. Still preferring to block ads.

This is why I use invidious. Much more lightweight without all the tracking and Google bullshit.

https://invidious.io

My instance https://iv.duti.dev