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.”

  • @ours
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    310 months ago

    But the server outputs code for the browser to run. Doesn’t matter what the server does as long as the browser gets there same output.

    Server side they could stall based on the agent but it’s not the case here. Whatever is happening seems to be client side.

    • Kogasa
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      210 months ago

      The client code can be modified depending on the request headers before being returned by the server

      • @candybrie
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        210 months ago

        They’re looking at the code returned by the server with a chrome user-agent and it’s the same.