kogasa comments on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

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 Vincent@kbin.social 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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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The client code can be modified depending on the request headers before being returned by the server

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[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They're looking at the code returned by the server with a chrome user-agent and it's the same.

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[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

They only said that snippet was present, not that all of the client code was the same

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