YouTube has clarified in a statement that users who use ad blockers will have a suboptimal experience regardless of their browser.
  • OtterAEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    But why does changing the user agent get rid of the problem?

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Does it? My user agent is still Firefox (default Librewolf after switching on “Resist Fingerprinting”), and well, it doesn’t affect me (also added the filter suggested on reddit).

      • OtterAEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I haven’t explored it myself, but it might be a better test to change the useragent to chrome once it does affect you

        I assume with A/B testing, the issue is only applied to a random set of users. So once it DOES affect you, toggle the useragent to see if it fixes it

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Maybe clear cache in between as well to make sure it isn’t loading from memory what it loaded for the other useragent.