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YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Post by mighmi »

The most interesting part from the discussion was noting it's implemented in the most basic, easily avoidable way (just spoof chrome) implying engineers unhappy with these tasks.

@dang or op, wrong link. Should be: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_ha...

Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Post by ayhanfuat »

From reddit discussion (https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9...):

> To clarify it more, it's simply this code in their polymer script link:

> setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3);

> which doesn't do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/96766c85/jsbin/desktop_pol...

Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Post by explain »

I have been getting this same slow-down for a month or two, but using Brave - which is the same user-agent as Chrome.

I would imagine changing the user-agent at all will (temporarily) fix it, rather than to a Chrome user-agent specifically.

Probably targets ad blocking users rather than non-Chrome users.

Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Post by m4tthumphrey »

ayhanfuat wrote: post #3

From reddit discussion ( https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9... ): > To clarify it more, it's simply this code in their polymer script link: > setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3); > which doesn't do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/96766c85/jsbin/desktop_pol...

This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT's way of "annoying" me still while no ads were shown... It was eventually replaced with the "You cant use Adblockers modal" and now I just tolerate the ads.

So I wonder if that 5s delay has always been there.

Re: YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox

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Post by dbspin »

m4tthumphrey wrote: post #7
ayhanfuat wrote: post #3

From reddit discussion ( https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9... ): > To clarify it more, it's simply this code in their polymer script link: > setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3); > which doesn't do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/96766c85/jsbin/desktop_pol...

This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT's way of "annoying" me still while no ads were shown... It was eventually replaced with the "You cant use Adblockers modal" and now I just tolerate the ads. So I wonder if that 5s delay has always been there.

It's still trivial to block ads, but the delay has recently started for me, after never happening before. So presumably a very intentional volley in the ongoing war to own your attention.
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