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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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[-] nitefox 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months 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 4 points 7 months ago

That’s fucked up for real

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

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