Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…

  • verysoft@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Mine instantly loads. Perhaps there’s some other stuff going on with hardware/software or something this person is running?

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      1 year ago

      I use YT every day and use Firefox as my main browser. I’ve never experienced this. Just tested out of curiosity, it loads fine.

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      Yeah it appears on chrome as well. There isn’t any evidence that it’s purposely “slowing down” anything. I had a quick glance at the Reddit thread (been avoiding it as much as possible, but had to visit in incognito to confirm the source for this outrage) and it looks like it’s part of a small script to check if an adblocker is present and disabling video ads from playing.

      It’s possible FF have a delay in playing that first video, but also the test methodology isn’t super reliable because of caching.