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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Some people are reporting it happens when your accounts get flagged by YouTube for blocking ads and that using a private browsing session can be used to bypass it, so it's possible this isn't a blanket thing?

Either way, they can go fuck themselves.

If you're on Firefox and using uBlock Origin (which you should), you can add the following to your filters list to essentially disable the delay:

! Bypass 5 seconds delay added by YouTube
www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001)

It doesn't fully disable it, just makes it almost instant, because Google has been doing shit like looking at what gets blocked to combat ad blockers recently.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use youtube without logging in, and it runs normally. If I use a private window, that's when I get a delay when loading videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good God I would hate to see the Mr Beast hell that your front page must be

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Once you start watching videos, you still get recommendations based on your viewing even if not logged in. As long as I don't clear my cookies, I basically get the content I'm interested in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always forget other people still allow cookies etc, I'm over here like an internet hermit, using Libre browser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I block all third-party cookies, but I do want some basic functionality out of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks I'll get back to this later