It affects all browsers, not just Firefox.
Some YouTube users began encountering an odd video delay in mid-November.
This phenomenon became controversial on November 19th, when aReddit useraccused YouTube of artificially slowing load times in Firefox.
The logic was pretty straightforward.
This code, which is baked into YouTube, proves that the five-second delay is intentional.
But Reddit users failed to see the big picture.
Thissnippetof code cannot check which surfing app you’re using.
Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the internet tool they are using.
Before Google commented on this story, some people speculated that the five-second delay is associated with ad blocking.
This is corroborated by Firefox, which told404 Mediathat the five-second delay affects all browsers.
This is a pretty crude trick from Google.
Ad-blocking services can get around the five-second delay witha simple filter.
Source: Google via404 Media
