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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47 points

It’s funny they think 5 seconds of no content is worst of 10~30 seconds of ads.

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I think the goal it to make the user wonder “hum, looks like it’s broken” hoping they disable adblocker during troubleshooting. I am not convinced at all about the effectivness of this measure, but it seems they are just trying anything.

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Most of the time, the commercial’s volume is much louder than whatever content you are watching. So ya, I’d rather have nothing…

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