<story><title>YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m4tthumphrey</author><text>This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT&amp;#x27;s way of &amp;quot;annoying&amp;quot; me still while no ads were shown... It was eventually replaced with the &amp;quot;You cant use Adblockers modal&amp;quot; and now I just tolerate the ads.&lt;p&gt;So I wonder if that 5s delay has always been there.</text></item><item><author>ayhanfuat</author><text>From reddit discussion (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;17ywbjj&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;k9w3ei4&amp;#x2F;?utm_source=reddit&amp;amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;amp;context=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;17ywbjj&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;k9...&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; To clarify it more, it&amp;#x27;s simply this code in their polymer script link:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; setTimeout(function() {
    c();
    a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; which doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;desktop&amp;#x2F;96766c85&amp;#x2F;jsbin&amp;#x2F;desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.vflset&amp;#x2F;desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;desktop&amp;#x2F;96766c85&amp;#x2F;jsbin&amp;#x2F;desktop_pol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluescrn</author><text>When I ran into the adblocker-blocker (Firefox + uBlock Origin), I noticed that I could watch videos if logged out. So I just stayed logged out, and haven&amp;#x27;t seen an anti-adblock message since. Or an ad.&lt;p&gt;Added bonus, I&amp;#x27;m less tempted to venture into the comments section...</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m4tthumphrey</author><text>This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT&amp;#x27;s way of &amp;quot;annoying&amp;quot; me still while no ads were shown... It was eventually replaced with the &amp;quot;You cant use Adblockers modal&amp;quot; and now I just tolerate the ads.&lt;p&gt;So I wonder if that 5s delay has always been there.</text></item><item><author>ayhanfuat</author><text>From reddit discussion (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;17ywbjj&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;k9w3ei4&amp;#x2F;?utm_source=reddit&amp;amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;amp;context=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;17ywbjj&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;k9...&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; To clarify it more, it&amp;#x27;s simply this code in their polymer script link:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; setTimeout(function() {
    c();
    a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; which doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;desktop&amp;#x2F;96766c85&amp;#x2F;jsbin&amp;#x2F;desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.vflset&amp;#x2F;desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;desktop&amp;#x2F;96766c85&amp;#x2F;jsbin&amp;#x2F;desktop_pol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lacerda69</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s weird but I saw the anti-blocker modal a week or two but them it stopped appearing and never saw it since &lt;i&gt;shrug&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>