nano's old account's rotting corpseNov 21, 2023
>youtube starts blocking ad-blockers
>people install ublock origin
>google is going to remove manifest v2 from chromium thus sabotaging most functionality of ad-blockers
>people install firefox
>youtube writes javascript that detects if youre on a non-chromium browser and delays the video loading for 5 seconds, the same amount of time youd wait watching an ad

go to hell google. immediately.
Show threadWamNov 21, 2023
@[email protected] that check does not detect for chromium, it happens in all browsers
Show threadnano's old account's rotting corpseNov 21, 2023
@wamwoowam what? so, every browser, including chrome, gets a 5 second delay? what are you talking about? this is only happening to non-chromium browsers, specifically firefox, and if you set the user agent to chrome the problem magically goes away
Show threadWamNov 21, 2023
@[email protected] it does not magically go away. it goes away purely by coincidence. i use chrome. sue me, but it happens to me too.

this is pure misinfo spread by a tweet which didn't do it's research, and now has a community note. it is wrong.
Show threadWamNov 21, 2023
@[email protected] every browser, including chrome, gets that delay.
Show threadnano's old account's rotting corpseNov 21, 2023
@wamwoowam so why would google program a hardcoded 5000 milisecond delay on every youtube video which even impacts their own browser? this makes no sense
Show threadMartin Rocket
@nano @wamwoowam because their favorite user base (Chrome without ad blocker) isn't affected.
Nov 21, 2023 at 8:52pmWeb