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

    The client code can be modified depending on the request headers before being returned by the server

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      1 year ago

      They’re looking at the code returned by the server with a chrome user-agent and it’s the same.

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        1 year ago

        They only said that snippet was present, not that all of the client code was the same