Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
mlg@lemmy.world 10 months agoYeah except changing your user agent to chrome bypasses the load slowdown lol
Thanks to HTTP being a complete mish mash and meme of protocols and standards, there’s no way for google to easily target ad blockers without either significantly changing the entire youtube API, or trying to enforce stupid DRM bullcrappary by updating or pushing for a new web standard.
Even crunchyroll doesn’t crackdown on ad block even with DRM playback enabled.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did you test this yourself? Rather than just ask your source, I was going to test it myself. However, I cannot get a slow down at all. Everything is loading instantly and ad-free. Perhaps the servers providing my instance of YouTube don’t have the change, I’m not sure, but I have not been able to personally create this. So without a reliable source or evidence, I cannot just take your word for it that changing the user-agent alone fixed the issue.
greenmarty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rossmann tested it in latest video. No difference between browsers. And that dude is strong ad block and none Google browser supporter.