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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 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know how stupid YouTube devs would have to be to:

Tie the delay that was supposed to fight AdBlock to user-agent (changing it to chrome fixes the issue)
Ignore Youtube Premium users that pay for ad-free experience

For those reasons I think it's pretty safe to say that this goes beyond stupidity and into malice territory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What evidence is there of this being user-agent based? I've heard people make this claim, but I have not seen evidence of it and when testing on my own machine there was no delay at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd wager Googles only releasing it to some users at first like they do with most things.