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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] 7 points 10 months ago

I highly recommend just downloading any videos you want to watch. Some guy made an extensions for firefox on linux that lets you click a button and it just automatically downloads and opens that video in mpv player. You can also use tube archivist, yt dlp, etc to auto download your subscriptions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

What is the extension called?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Looks like there are several, most of which require extra binaries.

https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/minimalist-open-in-mpv/

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