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.”

  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah except changing your user agent to chrome bypasses the load slowdown lol

    Did you test this yourself? Rather than just ask your source, I was going to test it myself. However, I cannot get a slow down at all. Everything is loading instantly and ad-free. Perhaps the servers providing my instance of YouTube don’t have the change, I’m not sure, but I have not been able to personally create this. So without a reliable source or evidence, I cannot just take your word for it that changing the user-agent alone fixed the issue.

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      1 year ago

      Rossmann tested it in latest video. No difference between browsers. And that dude is strong ad block and none Google browser supporter.