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Is this correct? If so, this is not acceptable. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the person who tweeted this scrolled down in the hackernews thread, they’d see this code was misinterpreted. It’s part of an anti Adblock script that runs 5s after page load. Still shitty, but less insidious

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh they think that delay in the beginning is malicious .

I noticed a huge drop in bandwidth until I logged out of YouTube. This was a onetimer however.