I've received a comment from Christopher Lawton (YouTube's communication manager) who says in no uncertain terms: 'loading delays experienced by Adblock and AdBlock Plus users are not caused by our ad blocker detection efforts.' YouTube responds, blame may lie in AdBlock Update These measures have made the company first-in-line to blame for any problems with these extensions-even when, as it turns out, it's (relatively) innocent. The report stated that YouTube's communications manager Christopher Lawton 'said that users will keep seeing issues like this as YouTube’s ad-blocker detection methods improve'. In November of last year, TheVerge reported a five-second loading delay on other browsers running ad blockers, and the company's statements created a solid M.O for this kind of thing. While YouTube has come under severe suspicion-including from myself-said suspicion was not entirely unwarranted.
Our Guides Writer Sarah James tested the extension with Premium, and noted an increase of about 15-18%.
The slow-down also appears to be impacting users who are subscribed to YouTube Premium while using AdBlocker for other websites, which is a problem-seeing as a subscription is a way to avoid ads without violating ToS, causing some users to feel hard done by.
