YouTube is blaming that Firefox delay people been talking about on adblockers. - eviltoast
YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser
www.androidauthority.com
YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.

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.

  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.