There are other ways to detect FF, but they can almost always be worked around with enough effort.
Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’ll spoof the user agent because that shit is disgusting.
aidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plagiatus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If it actually targets ad blockers and not FF in particular, that won’t do much.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Plagiatus@lemmy.world 10 months 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