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We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I read in a different post that the code was misinterpreted to be a 5 second sleep before showing the video, but instead was waiting 5 seconds to execute some anti-ad-block script. Still pretty sleazy either way.

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

    There's a video going around of a guy using a useragent spoofer to prove that it only does this on non-Chromium browsers. So I don't think it's necessarily anti-adblock, but it could be interpreted that way when you consider Google's plans to implement DRM in Chromium.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    When I went rooting around to find it. I figured it was some QA process that starts 5 seconds after the video loads (the timer seems to be async and the code sends a promise off while it waits). Of course, it's all minified JS so it's a huge pain to read.

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