In this video I discuss how YouTube is artificially slowing down videos in the Firefox browser artificially to probably get people to use Chromium browsers that Google has more control over.
The “analysis” was wrong, YouTube isn’t delaying load by 5 seconds. That’s a ridiculous claim to be making. As noted elsewhere, this script segment attempts to load content after 5 seconds to attempt to circumvent and/or detect ad blockers.
Edit: the reddit thread is more foolish, omg. Like, people haven’t even googled what the function does. smh
Here’s the article. He showed in the video, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/11/20/youtube-video-loading-delayed-fix-inside/
EDIT I used the uBlock Origin Filter and it works.
The “analysis” was wrong, YouTube isn’t delaying load by 5 seconds. That’s a ridiculous claim to be making. As noted elsewhere, this script segment attempts to load content after 5 seconds to attempt to circumvent and/or detect ad blockers.
Edit: the reddit thread is more foolish, omg. Like, people haven’t even googled what the function does. smh
Okay.