Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Plagiatus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it actually targets ad blockers and not FF in particular, that won’t do much.

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    • Phrodo_00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Plagiatus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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