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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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[-] Dzeimis@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I saw this myself when this was news. Created empty firefox profile, installed only userscript changer plugin.

Default user agent - rotating loading circle before video starts playing. Windows/Chrome user agent - video starts immediately.

Tried with multiple videos, changing first user agent that opened the video to make sure it's not cached somewhere.

Didn't bother to install Chrome for reverse test though.

Now it's back to loading at the same speed regardless of user agent though.

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