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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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[-] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The client code can be modified depending on the request headers before being returned by the server

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're looking at the code returned by the server with a chrome user-agent and it's the same.

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

They only said that snippet was present, not that all of the client code was the same

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