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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

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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."

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

To add on

You can spoof this user agent to see if a website does something shady depending on which browser you're using.

So if you keep all other variables the same, and just toggle the user agent value, YouTube behaves differently

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How can we do that?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I haven't tried it in a while, but I think there are browser extensions for it. Might need to ask someone else for how to do it these days

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