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.”

  • FeelThePoveR@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t know how stupid YouTube devs would have to be to:

    • Tie the delay that was supposed to fight AdBlock to user-agent (changing it to chrome fixes the issue)

    • Ignore Youtube Premium users that pay for ad-free experience

    For those reasons I think it’s pretty safe to say that this goes beyond stupidity and into malice territory.

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      11 months ago

      What evidence is there of this being user-agent based? I’ve heard people make this claim, but I have not seen evidence of it and when testing on my own machine there was no delay at all.