Still not sure on whose end the problem was, but I had well over a 100k on the counter at one point. Video ran fine all the way through and nothing ever slowed down.
Different levels of monetization on videos, combined with staggered rollouts of anti-adblock technology.
They’ve been testing the latest tech recently. Which has, for me, made many of the more commercialized videos hang initially for 10-20 seconds before starting. While a lot of smaller ones play instantly. And similarly, the bigger videos will constantly keep blocking attempts, sometimes dozens in a few seconds, while the smaller ones have a few per minute.
They now detect if your browser is loading ad resources based on your session ID and if it’s found that you aren’t loading them, they just throttle delivery of the video content
Different levels of monetization on videos, combined with staggered rollouts of anti-adblock technology.
They’ve been testing the latest tech recently. Which has, for me, made many of the more commercialized videos hang initially for 10-20 seconds before starting. While a lot of smaller ones play instantly. And similarly, the bigger videos will constantly keep blocking attempts, sometimes dozens in a few seconds, while the smaller ones have a few per minute.
They now detect if your browser is loading ad resources based on your session ID and if it’s found that you aren’t loading them, they just throttle delivery of the video content