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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

submitted 10 months ago by Vincent@kbin.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 5 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

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