Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. The slow down is 5 secs according to the video.
Update 1: Safari faces the same treatment
Update 2: Google confirms 5 sec delays for ad-block user
I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.
That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.
It’s possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.
Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.
Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.
Freetube on desktop, Newpipe on android. This is the way.
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To be clear, is this delay skipped for subscribers?
I was wondering what that was for a few days. I thought it was just uBlock Origin doing its work.
Ive been noticing this recently too also buffering occasionally on random videos from time to time when im having 0 connectivity issues. This isint going to make the average person think firefox is bad but rather that youtube is garbage
I would have thought the exact same thing. I like having videos play in the background so I wouldn’t have looked into it anyway.
I’m one of 5 people who have premium (I use YouTube Music) and they’re still slowing down videos for me. Also maybe it’s in my head, but I think the Google search has been taking longer too. I’ve noticed some extra loading time that doesn’t show up in Microsoft edge, or if I use duckduckgo/bing from Firefox.
I have had random freezing on the mobile Firefox for months now. I typically search in a private tab with a bunch of trackers disabled. If I do the same search in Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet (in their incognito tabs) the searches load. This seems like a block on Firefox itself
Didn’t similar shit get Microsoft hit with antitrust lawsuits?
Yeah but that was back when we had a mostly functional government. Times have changed.
I use https://piped.video/trending as an alternative to YouTube.
I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.
Gonna keep talking about Peertube until it starts to take off.
Seriously, how great would it be for your fave youtubers to have their own Peertube instance, and know that your donations go DIRECTLY to support them and maintain their server? With NO advertisements or possibility of Google shutting you down just cuz they dont like you
I am not spoofing my user agent and I’m going to continue using FOSS front-ends to access YouTube until an alternative takes off. Fuck you Google.
This should not be legal.
It’s probably not, and now?
I’ve noticed this happening on Firefox, but not with LibreWolf for some reason
Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.
I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.
Wouldn’t that… just make me stop visiting YouTube instead of making me stop using Firefox?
I mean, my first reaction when a website is slow is not exactly “maybe I should change browsers”. It’s closer to “maybe I’ll visit a different website”.
Fuck Google, Fuck Youtube, Fuck Alphabet, Honestly just fuck everyone who does this shit
Ublock origin blocks all ads and their stupid pop-up.
According to Google the delay is to fight against the ad-blocker user.
This is also not the first time Google adds feature that will work better with chrome.
