Some people are reporting it happens when your accounts get flagged by YouTube for blocking ads and that using a private browsing session can be used to bypass it, so it’s possible this isn’t a blanket thing?
Either way, they can go fuck themselves.
If you’re on Firefox and using uBlock Origin (which you should), you can add the following to your filters list to essentially disable the delay:
It doesn’t fully disable it, just makes it almost instant, because Google has been doing shit like looking at what gets blocked to combat ad blockers recently.
Once you start watching videos, you still get recommendations based on your viewing even if not logged in. As long as I don’t clear my cookies, I basically get the content I’m interested in.
If Firefox is the only browser that allows ad blockers to run effectively, Google would have the excuse they need to slow Firefox town.
And wouldn’t you know it, Google is implementing Manifest V3, the adblock killer, on Chrome once again.
There’s a point where a monopolistic company reaches a critical mass that even “voting with your feet” and moving to Firefox won’t fix, if the vast majority of browser users are on Chrome.
Some people are reporting it happens when your accounts get flagged by YouTube for blocking ads and that using a private browsing session can be used to bypass it, so it’s possible this isn’t a blanket thing?
Either way, they can go fuck themselves.
If you’re on Firefox and using uBlock Origin (which you should), you can add the following to your filters list to essentially disable the delay:
! Bypass 5 seconds delay added by YouTube www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001)It doesn’t fully disable it, just makes it almost instant, because Google has been doing shit like looking at what gets blocked to combat ad blockers recently.
I use youtube without logging in, and it runs normally. If I use a private window, that’s when I get a delay when loading videos.
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Once you start watching videos, you still get recommendations based on your viewing even if not logged in. As long as I don’t clear my cookies, I basically get the content I’m interested in.
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I block all third-party cookies, but I do want some basic functionality out of the internet.
If Firefox is the only browser that allows ad blockers to run effectively, Google would have the excuse they need to slow Firefox town.
And wouldn’t you know it, Google is implementing Manifest V3, the adblock killer, on Chrome once again.
There’s a point where a monopolistic company reaches a critical mass that even “voting with your feet” and moving to Firefox won’t fix, if the vast majority of browser users are on Chrome.
Thanks I’ll get back to this later