So I haven't gotten the "adblock block" yet, however since a little less than a month I've had this thing where YouTube kinda starts loading the ad but doesn't play it. It'll be a black screen with a spinning loading icon, the timestamp indicates the length of the ad, and the text in the corner is of the ad. But the actual ad doesn't play, it just "buffers" on a black screen for a few seconds and then goes to the video. Which is mildly annoying but whatever, I can live with it.
However, as of today something new has been happening... When the video starts playing, it has skipped ahead a few seconds. The amount of time skipped is not consistent, like one time it was 16 seconds and another time it was 5 seconds. It looks like when you "resume" a video that you previously started watching. My totally spontaneous uneducated guess after this has just happened three or four times is that perhaps the time skip is the same as the length of the ad it was supposed to play? But I just made that up on the spot so I have no idea, just a wild guess.
Has this been happening to anyone else? Got any idea what to do about it? For the record I use AdBlock Plus
EDIT: I've tried browsing some videos just to see how this phenomenon works and the time skip does indeed seem to match the length of the ad that was supposed to play. Got a bunch of 15 second ones in a row and then a 1:47 one, and consistently the time skip when the video starts has been matching the length of the removed ad.
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