 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 think the function in the image only checks for firefox browser and not Edge. It explicitly returns false if it finds
Edgein your user agent.Hopefully youtube only checks the user agent which can be changed with just a few clicks using an addon.
@programmer_belch Not sure since I’m not so good at javascript, but I know abt several reports and articles that Edge users has the same issue as Firefox users.
Yes, I don’t deny that, I thought the javascript in the image was presented as the offending code that checks for the browser before giving the delay