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CTOnews.com, November 21 (Xinhua)-- Firefox Firefox users recently reported that visiting YouTube to open a video will "artificially" extend the video loading delay by 5 seconds.

Firefox browser users report that there will be a delay when opening YouTube videos when the network connection is normal. The average user may think that Firefox browsers have poor hardware acceleration support or are not at their best, or it may be due to improper use of available processor threads and other system resources.

After users responded to the problem in the Reddit community, skilled Firefox browser users found that there was a code in YouTube's polymer script that introduced a 5-second load delay: "setTimeout (function () {c (); a.resolve (1)}, 5E3)", which is considered to be a measure of YouTube anti-advertising blocking extension.

Users who use the popular ad blocking extension UBO can add "www.youtube.com##+js (nano-stb, resolve (1), *, 0.001)" to the filter to bypass the load delay security problem.

CTOnews.com Note: the topic of artificially prolonging loading time has become one of the hottest topics in the YouTube and Firefox subsections of the Reddit community, and has attracted a lot of heated discussion among users in Hacker News.

YouTube said the new five-second video load delay was mainly designed to punish ad blockers, not Firefox users, and that the plan was to "reduce the viewing experience no matter what browser users use, as long as they use ad blockers".

In a statement to the 404 Media, Google did not provide details, but did not deny the implementation of artificial waiting time. The spokesman said:

To support a diverse global ecosystem of creators and allow billions of people to access their favorite content on YouTube, we have launched an effort to urge viewers with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube, or to try YouTube Premium for an ad-free experience. No matter what browser they use, users who install ad blockers may encounter second-best viewing results.

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