Five@slrpnk.net to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 years agoYouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browserwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkYouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browserwww.androidauthority.comFive@slrpnk.net to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square15linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoDoes it? My user agent is still Firefox (default Librewolf after switching on “Resist Fingerprinting”), and well, it doesn’t affect me (also added the filter suggested on reddit).
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoI haven’t explored it myself, but it might be a better test to change the useragent to chrome once it does affect you I assume with A/B testing, the issue is only applied to a random set of users. So once it DOES affect you, toggle the useragent to see if it fixes it
Does it? My user agent is still Firefox (default Librewolf after switching on “Resist Fingerprinting”), and well, it doesn’t affect me (also added the filter suggested on reddit).
I haven’t explored it myself, but it might be a better test to change the useragent to chrome once it does affect you
I assume with A/B testing, the issue is only applied to a random set of users. So once it DOES affect you, toggle the useragent to see if it fixes it