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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 2 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Well, ads are usually quite a bit longer... So I really don't see what they would gain from that. Unless they lied, which is of course possible if not likely.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That snippet of code is browser agnostic, which means you have the same problem on chrome lol

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    'not to worry, chrome will soon not have good adblockers, and those that remain will be crippled and have size-limited filter lists that must be distributed with the addon via our 'store'--meaning we can (and will at some point) shut down any filter updates that block our shit.'

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From what I understand from the articles about this, it was found that different JavaScript code (without any delay added) was served in the HTTP response if Firefox was spoofed to look like the request came from Chrome, so it seems the issue only occurs on non-chrome browsers.

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