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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 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So they will allow ad blockers now? I'll take a five second delay instead of shitty ads.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'll spoof the user agent because that shit is disgusting.

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If it actually targets ad blockers and not FF in particular, that won't do much other than telling all the websites you visit that yet another user is using chrome and not FF.

[–] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't do it so take it with a grain of salt but people were saying they saw improvement in loading when changing the used agent to chrome.

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I saw others reporting a similar issue in Brave. 🤷‍♂️

Oh well, we'll see how it plays out, right now there is a lot of speculation going on

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

There are other ways to detect FF, but they can almost always be worked around with enough effort.