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- YouTube is really slowing down the platform for people using ad blockers.
- Video load times have gone up as much as five minutes.
- Meanwhile, the platform seems flooded with bad, misleading advertisements.
YouTube is waging war against ad blockers, and over the past few months, the platform has made it very clear it doesn’t want people to use them. It now gives users a warning that ad blockers violate the company’s terms of service, leaving users with no option but to get a YouTube Premium subscription if they wish to go ad-free. Another way YouTube is discouraging users from enabling ad blockers is to slow down the platform for them.