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."

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.”

  • FeelThePoveR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      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.