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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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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Well, ads are usually quite a bit longer... So I really don't see what they would gain from that. Unless they lied, which is of course possible if not likely.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TimTamJimJam@lemmy.world 7 points 10 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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

That’s fucked up for real

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