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."

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.”

  • @takedaEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    I don’t know why they all start with Mozilla/5.0 but the apparently a lot of websites will block your requests if you don’t have it (or a valid browser strings like it?)

    This is a good summary of this mess: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      I personally like seeing Mozilla loud and proud in all the user agents.

      It’s a mess, but also an echo of history.