Google is slowing down YouTube videos for some Firefox users

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FL81 posted...
oh boy, even more Google shenanigans

A user has noticed that YouTube under Firefox adds in a 5 second delay, but using Chrome (or even just a user agent switcher), the delay is gone
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/

Google has issued a statement on the issue, blaming ad blockers (of course)
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-blames-ad-blockers-slow-load-times-3387523/

btw this is the uBlock Origin filter rule to fix it
www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)
Nice, now explain to me what this is and where do I do with it
A worthless existence