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submitted 1 year ago by Vincent@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That snippet of code is browser agnostic, which means you have the same problem on chrome lol

[-] ares35@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'not to worry, chrome will soon not have good adblockers, and those that remain will be crippled and have size-limited filter lists that must be distributed with the addon via our 'store'--meaning we can (and will at some point) shut down any filter updates that block our shit.'

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. I stopped using chrome a looong time ago so no problem anyway

[-] TimTamJimJam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

From what I understand from the articles about this, it was found that different JavaScript code (without any delay added) was served in the HTTP response if Firefox was spoofed to look like the request came from Chrome, so it seems the issue only occurs on non-chrome browsers.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That’s fucked up for real

[-] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It seemed to be just a 5 second wait.

The weird part is that changing user agent to chrome seems to avoid it.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not weird. It's asshole design.

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