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 threadKimota94
@nano If the delay really matches the duration of the ad you’d be shown in the other browser, is it possible they’re “streaming” the ad in such a way that it doesn’t show up in your browser but they can then go ahead and claim to their advertisers that it WAS streamed to you (meaning they’d still make money off it)? That’s what this feels like.
Nov 21, 2023 at 10:09pmWeb