Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. - eviltoast
  • fosho@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    it’s pretty inconclusive if there’s no context for how that code is called. I’m kinda confused why the article wouldn’t have provided any additional detail other than a single line of code. why bother digging at all?

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      1 year ago

      it’s part of their anti-adblock code. without going into too much details, they can instantly find out whether ad-block is trying to do anything on chrome, but on firefox they need a 5 sec delay

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Which is honestly to Firefox’s credit. Making it harder to find out stuff about your browser is a good thing, unless it has to do with feature support.

        But the fact that they don’t give a shit and are willing to ruin the user experience for it, that’s despicable.