This delay isn’t exclusive to Firefox, it’s in any browser where a user has enabled adblockers including in Chrome. Disable the adblocker and this delay magically go away. This was done on purpose.
For anyone confused with the title:
YouTube is blaming the ‘Firefox delay’, that people been talking about, on adblockers.
Maybe it’s just me… English is not my first language so that might be it. I really struggled to understand what it said.
To make it more clear use “have been” instead of just “been”
Thank you. I missed that part, figured someone would correct me before I finished editing so I left it as is. Took longer than expected!
Thank you. I happened to be smelling something toast like at the same time I tried to read that and had to check the comments. Turns out it was a heater that hadn’t been on in a while.
It is my first, and I definitely had to read it twice to make sure that I understood. It is definitely not you, but the awkward way they worded the title.
Yours is much clearer, in my opinion.
Weird, I use Firefox and ad blockers. I never get ads or delays when watching YouTube videos.
To say the quiet part out loud: Bullshit
Google may find that their only option is to paywall YouTube. Too many of us will prefer to pay creators directly rather than letting Google take a cut. And YouTube is not the only game in town.
I admit that I’m pretty much done with YouTube anyway. Their unskippable mid roll ads that interrupt videos mid-word have become obnoxious enough that many creators I follow are jumping ship and advising their viewers where to find them.
Where are they going? Most of the ones I follow are along the “this sucks, but it’s the only real game in town”, so I’d be interested to check alternatives and see what’s there.
The big problem with any social or content centric platform is that new ones are only useful for consumers if there are creators and only useful for creators if there are consumers.
Most are headed to Patreon and Vimeo. A few seem likely to try out PeerTube.
The original video showed that just changing the Agent string fixed the “problem”, so it has nothing to do with ad blocking.
Was any else able to verify the claim in the original video? I couldn’t.
A few months back I had this issue on Chrome, but my ad blocker updated and it went away.
Interesting. Did any change since then? Regarding it going away.
Also unrelated, your user name reminds of a Youtuber I use to watch.
After the update it’s been working as intended.
Lol, my internet is shit and I often have to wait a few seconds for it to buffer anyway, so I won’t see much difference.
Hmm. Is this supposed to be affecting everyone using Firefox with adblockers? I just played a video on FF with uBO. Worked fine for me with no delays. Maybe because I searched for the video using DDG and watched it via DDG (meaning I did not click through and watch it on YT)?
Same here. I tried on 2 computers and no delay so far.
In tandem with my current settings. Adding a Firefox add on to spoof my user agent worked for me. I set it to random and disabled all the Firefox user agents.
Part of me wonders if the reverse holds - if spoofing one’s user-agent on Chrome to look like Firefox could cause the delay to occur.
I am ready to jump ship to Newpipe only (or newpipe and invidious) when I get the popup. And when these services are inevitably killed off, I will use a list that is currently WIP to help me find as many creators as possible via alternative methods (their own websites, podcasts, or them being on services like Odyssey or Peertube)
Just to put this out there for those who probally didn’t read the article. YouTube does this 5 second delay thing, on purpose only if it detects a user using an adblocker if you don’t use the adblocker then Youtube will work as it normally would on that browser.
Whether it’s still a clunky experienceor the browser crashes really Is dependant on that browser and if it’s a good alternative browser.
In other words, ‘fix he delay by disabling the adblocker’, coming from Youtube themselves.
So I can either wait 5 seconds in silence, or have to watch a 5 second (possibly longer) ad? I know which one I’ll choose.
Silly. This wouldn’t explain why people still get the delay in a “clean” version of firefox, or why the delay disappears when the only thing changed is spoofing that your browser is chrome instead.
I get that. I’m just spreading what google’s official response was.
Did this happen to anyone other than the one guy who made the video about it? I couldn’t replicate it.
Because the delay is part of adblocker detection on non Chrome based browsers.
If that is the case, then it doesn’t matter whether you’re running an adblocker or not. It’s a marketing ploy to blame it on adblock users.
Man, I already had a hard time justifying my YouTube Premium subscription. I literally only have it for putting on stuff to sleep to on my TV without some ad telling me Mr. Beast wants to give me $10,000 if i click.
But the worse this gets, the more I feel like an asshole for giving them a dime.
I put newpipe on my TV for this exact reason
SmartTube is more optimized for TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Give it a try.
