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.”

  • @PieMePlenty
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    238 months ago

    I’ll spoof the user agent because that shit is disgusting.

    • @Plagiatus
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      8 months ago

      If it actually targets ad blockers and not FF in particular, that won’t do much other than telling all the websites you visit that yet another user is using chrome and not FF.

      • @Phrodo_00
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        28 months ago

        I didn’t do it so take it with a grain of salt but people were saying they saw improvement in loading when changing the used agent to chrome.

        • @Plagiatus
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          38 months ago

          I saw others reporting a similar issue in Brave. 🤷‍♂️

          Oh well, we’ll see how it plays out, right now there is a lot of speculation going on

    • @aidan
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      48 months ago

      There are other ways to detect FF, but they can almost always be worked around with enough effort.