>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.

@nano

You forgot:

>people add a filter in uBlock Origin to change the sleep time from five seconds to one millisecond. :D

(Add the following to My Filters under uBlock Origin settings.)

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)