Edit: Replies to this thread indicate this is not fully correct as it exists on all browsers; and is likely an ad thing.

  • Superb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1834·
    1 year ago

    If the person who tweeted this scrolled down in the hackernews thread, they’d see this code was misinterpreted. It’s part of an anti Adblock script that runs 5s after page load. Still shitty, but less insidious

    • Johanno@feddit.de
      121·
      1 year ago

      Oh they think that delay in the beginning is malicious .

      I noticed a huge drop in bandwidth until I logged out of YouTube. This was a onetimer however.