YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users - eviltoast

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.”

  • Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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
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      1 year 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