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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

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Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I'll spoof the user agent because that shit is disgusting.

[-] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If it actually targets ad blockers and not FF in particular, that won't do much other than telling all the websites you visit that yet another user is using chrome and not FF.

[-] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I didn't do it so take it with a grain of salt but people were saying they saw improvement in loading when changing the used agent to chrome.

[-] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I saw others reporting a similar issue in Brave. 🤷‍♂️

Oh well, we'll see how it plays out, right now there is a lot of speculation going on

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