Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

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    1 year ago

    To add on

    You can spoof this user agent to see if a website does something shady depending on which browser you’re using.

    So if you keep all other variables the same, and just toggle the user agent value, YouTube behaves differently

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        I haven’t tried it in a while, but I think there are browser extensions for it. Might need to ask someone else for how to do it these days