YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

It can't be worse than the experience with ads they provide

suboptimal viewing is already a builtin feature

Well I know for sure my viewing experience will be worse with ads, so "might" is a possible improvement

That's a risk I'm willing to take.

"That's a nice YouTube feed, be a real shame if somethin' were to...happen to it..."

Youtube is already one of the most resource hungry websites in existence for no fucking reason.

I can watch 1h YouTube on my laptop when its fully charged but 4h streaming anime...

If a piracy website builds stuff more efficiently than you are the problem.

For iOS users, Firefox Focus still seems unfazed by all of this. Sent a playlist to it from PocketTube today and I didn’t see an ad through several videos, with no delays.

Do they... do they understand that we are the customers?

Funny, they're actively making it worse any time I try to lower my shields too. They've changed, very recently, from a video hosting platform with ads, to an advertising platform with some minor videos in between.

Oh, do you want my viewing experience to be worse? Well don't worry, because I'm doing my best so PeerTube has quality content in a weekly basis, while you also have the same content in a monthly basis.

I haven't been to youtube.com or opened the app in ages. I switched to FreeTube and haven't looked back. That'll last until they restrict API access, anyway.

YT can rot in Hell for pulling this garbage with its viewers.