YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users

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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
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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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Im surprised Amazon hasn’t stepped into the space to advertise their own products. They already own a huge storage cloud backend.

...i'm surprised pornhub hasn't rolled out an all-ages video site...

They already make a killing with their cloud with much less business risk in the form of AWS.

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