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.”

  • blady_blah
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    1 year ago

    I’ll take a 5 sec delay over ads any fucking day of the week.

      • Anti-Face Weapon
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        1 year ago

        Next up will be resetting the volume control every video, or limiting the resolutions you can view at.

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          1 year ago

          They already kinda do the resolution thing. Premium gets higher bitrate versions of the videos.