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On my TV YouTube wouldn’t skip to video if ads didn’t load. One could say that’s an effective guard against an adblocker as you would just get a black screen fo
by wodenokoto 3y ago
On my TV YouTube wouldn’t skip to video if ads didn’t load. One could say that’s an effective guard against an adblocker as you would just get a black screen for a minute.
Of course you would also get a blank screen when the ad server wasn’t responding, because the ad server is not hooked up to the local cdn
- herbst 3y agoThis! Worse than unskippable ad breaks are high resolution ads that come with lag. Sometimes a 20 second unskippable and turns out to take 60 seconds or more with lag and buffering. Even thought I don't have issues on the video itself.