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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Youtube is great not because of itself, but because of the content, none of which they are the creator of.

I say this a lot but I'd happily pay for YouTube if the company didn't run it so arbitrarily

And I sure as fuck don't want to pay now, if this is how they treat their viewers