I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.

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    11 hours ago

    Facebook’s mobile website takes way too long to load to encourage you to download the app. Only ever use it for marketplace and the occasional link my friends/coworkers send. I recieved a link on teams and my phone took over 20 seconds to load while my work computer did it instantly and both were on the same wifi. Sometimes it will just refuse to open posts on marketplace, so I have to use my computer.

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      9 hours ago

      Yea that is 100% intentional. It’s commonplace BS to get you to install the app so they can spy on you more easily.

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      9 hours ago

      To add to this, commenting on posts and posting photos is a huge pain on the browser version. Not that I use Facebook pretty much at all anymore.