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Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.
You assume people are rational, they are not
Spoken like a cynical back end developer. Communication is key.
You can lead a troglodyte to knowledge but you can't make them think.
What user-agent would work to stop google from throttling YouTube?
As I said User-Agent switcher for Firefox gets rid of the 5 second wait before the site loads.
Yes, and my question was: using the user-agent switcher, which user agent do you switch to in order to get rid of the 5 second wait before the site loads?
Just select Chrome. Google uses the delay specifically on Firefox. I only enable it for Youtube and Gmail URLs because it can mess with other websites.