 is making the watching experience worse on [#Firefox](https://infosec.exchange/tags/Firefox) and Microsoft Edge.](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/111/465/537/377/547/676/original/f12bd44c1339a23a.png){kind=link}
#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn’t believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it’s true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it’s Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
#privacy #youtube #google #dataprotection #firefox #msedge #browser @privacy
I have never experienced that… Maybe ublock blocks that? I for sure haven’t changed my user agent
@SaltyIceteaMaker Same, I think it’s bc of uBO or other modifications from or which I made to LibreWolf, but other people made reports on Reddit and other Social Media platforms that they expierenced that and the code obviously shows that YT is doing that stuff.
Yes, uBlock devs said that they fixed the problem
@Bear_with_a_hammer Ah alright, goos to know. Do you have a link to it?